THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.6745 of 1997 Dated 31-01-2007 Between: E.Lakshmana Goud. ..... PETITIONER AND The Municipal Corporation of Kunool, rep. By its Commissioner, Kurnool. .....RESPONDENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.6745 of 1997 O R D E R: The petitioner, an NMR, working in the Municipal Corporation of Kurnool, seeks payment of minimum time scale of pay and all other attendant benefits. In view of the judgment of the Supreme Court in L.Chandra Kumar v. Union of India[1], the petitioners ought to have approached the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal in the ﬁrst instance before the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India could have been invoked. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. ______________ 31-01-2007 usd [1] AIR 1997 SC 1125