IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH & THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.20811 of 2009 Between: S.V.Vijayananda Rao and another ..... PETITIONERS AND The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary(Revenue (C.T.I) Department, A.P.Secretariat, Hyderabad and 4 others .....RESPONDENTS The Court made the following: THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH & THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.20811 of 2009 ORDER: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice Vilas V.Afzulpurkar) The writ petition is directed against the interim order passed by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad (hereinafter referred to as “the Tribunal”) in O.A.10358 of 2009 dated 11.09.2009. In the said O.A. the petitioners herein are Respondents Nos.3 and 6 respectively. By the aforesaid order, the Tribunal had admitted the O.A. and issued notice to the respondents therein and to the extent of interim relief, directed status quo shall continue till further orders. Petitioners herein have straight away approached this Court without approaching the Tribunal seeking vacation or modification of the said interim order. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that in the connected batch of cases, practically between the same parties, there is no interim order passed by the Tribunal. While so, in the present O.A. moved by Respondents Nos.3, 4 and 5 herein, the Tribunal has passed the impugned order of status quo at the admission stage, without issuing notice and without hearing the petitioners herein who are likely to be effected by the said order. The learned counsel further submits that he had to approach this Court as the impugned order of the Tribunal records that both sides heard and only thereafter the order is passed. We do not, however, agree with the said submissions inasmuch as the order of the Tribunal shows that the learned counsel for the applicants and the Government Pleader, representing Respondents Nos.1 and 2 and the learned counsel for Respondents Nos.3 and 6 (applicants in O.A. before the Tribunal) were heard and the Tribunal had ordered notice to other respondents, returnable in four weeks. It is always open for the petitioners herein to approach the Tribunal by filing a counter affidavit and seeking vacation of the impugned interim order. In that view of the matter, we decline to exercise our jurisdiction under Article-226 of the Constitution of India with respect to the impugned interim order of the Tribunal. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed. The learned counsel for the petitioners states that since the other batch of cases are pending before the Tribunal, he would approach the Tribunal with an application for vacation of the impugned interim order and in such an event, the Tribunal be directed to expeditiously take up and decide the miscellaneous application at least from the present O.A. We are sure that as and when the petitioners move an application to vacate the impugned interim order in the present O.A, the Tribunal would expeditiously hear and dispose of the same at the earliest, preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of filing such application. No order as to costs. ___________________ V.ESWARAIAH,J ___________________________ VILAS V.AFZULPURKAR,J Dated: 25.09.2009 Dsr