IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WEDNESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JUNE, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY WRIT PETITION No.6321 of 2005 Between: B. Jinkala Lakshmi Devi. … Petitioner And The District Collector, Kurnool District and two others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners: Sri K.Sitaram. Counsel for the respondents: AGP for Revenue. This Court made the following: ORDER:- At the interlocutory stage the Writ Petition is taken up for hearing and disposal with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties. This Writ Petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of respondents 1 to 3 in not extending the relief package and ex-gratia to the petitioner’s family as illegal, arbitrary and discriminatory. The petitioner’s husband died by committing suicide on 17-9-2003. The death was registered as FIR No.50 of 2003 on the file of Kodumur Police Station on 18-9-2003. The petitioner approached respondent No.3 for extending the benefit of financial package announced by the Government of Andhra Pradesh in favour of the families who lost their breadwinners by committing suicides. The grievance of the petitioner is that though the former District Judge, who was appointed as a One Man Commission to make recommendations, directed respondent No.2 to extend the relief to the petitioner’s family, no such benefit has been extended. Hence, she filed the present Writ Petition. In the counter-affidavit filed by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Kurnool, it is admitted that the husband of the petitioner committed suicide due to heavy indebtedness in connection with agriculture and a sum of Rs.1,50,000/- has been sanctioned under the concerned scheme. However, while it is mentioned that the said amount, which was sanctioned, was disbursed to the petitioner; it is also stated that the amount was kept in the joint account of Mandal Revenue Officer, Kodumur and the Writ Petitioner with Account No.1487. The learned Assistant Government Pleader is unable to explain this patent contradiction in the counter-affidavit. If the amount has already been disbursed, the question of the same being kept in the joint account does not arise. If the amount is already kept in the joint account, the respondents shall ensure that the petitioner receives the said benefit in accordance with the scheme under which the amount was sanctioned. Respondent No.2 shall pass an appropriate order in this regard within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Subject to the above directions, the Writ Petition is disposed of. ------------------------------------ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J 11-6-2008 MNR