THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU W.P. No. 20584 of 2005 O R D E R: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of 2nd respondent in issuing proceedings Rc.No.1330/B1- 3/1999 dated 30.7.2005 as arbitrary and illegal; consequently to direct the respondents to handover the management of the school to the petitioner committee. It appears, the Correspondent of the School, namely, one Brahmaiah was removed in view of some irregularities committed by him, after issuing the show-cause notice vide proceedings dated 23.8.2003 of the Commissioner and Director of School Education, Hyderabad and in his place the person in charge was appointed. Now, the writ petition is filed by the management of Padmaja Educational Committee, Bogole, Nellore District, represented by its President. The grievance of the petitioner is that though Mr. Brahmaiah has been removed, the person in charge ought not to have been appointed and the petitioner-management ought to have been permitted to appoint a new Correspondent in place of Mr. Brahmaiah. In this regard, learned counsel for the petitioner relied upon Section 24(4) of the A.P. Education Act, 1982, which reads as under: “The competent authority may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, declare a person to be unfit to be the manager of a private institution after giving to such person an opportunity of making his representation against such declaration and under intimation to the management and on such declaration, the person aforesaid shall cease to be manager of the private institution and the management of such institution shall nominate another person as a manager in his place in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2): Provided that no manager of a minority educational institution shall be declared to be so unfit under this sub-section save for mismanagement”, and submitted that since the manager-cum-correspondent has been removed, the management of the school should have been permitted to appoint a new Correspondent in place of old one. Under those circumstances, the very writ petition is disposed of directing the petitioner to make a detailed representation before 2nd respondent seeking permission to appoint or nominate its own correspondent as contemplated under Section 24(4) of the Act, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this Order. On filing such representation, 2nd respondent shall consider the same within a period of eight weeks thereafter and pass appropriate orders, as per law, withdrawing the orders as to appointment of Special Officer, and communicate the same to the petitioner. No order as to costs. JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU. Date: 8-11-2010. MVB.