HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 21472 OF 2010. DATED 17TH SEPTEMBER, 2010. BETWEEEN A.S.Narayana …Petitioner And The Regional Officer, APSRTC, Rep. By its Regional Manager, W.G.District, Eluru and anr . …..Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 21472 OF 2010. ORDER: The petitioner was appointed as Driver in the Narasapuram Depot of APSRTC, on 01.02.1990. He was subjected to medical examination. It was found that the vision of the petitioner is defective, and he was declared unfit, to discharge the functions of driver. Appeal and review ﬁled by the petitioner against the opinion expressed by the Medical Board were dismissed. The petitioner ﬁled an application before the ﬁrst respondent with a request to extend beneﬁts, under the ‘Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995’ (for short ‘the Act’). This Writ Petition is ﬁled challenging the proceedings dated 07.12.2009, through which, the petitioner was declared medically unﬁt. He also prayed for consideration of his application for alternate employment. Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents- Corporation. The challenge made by the petitioner to the proceedings issued by the Medical Board and those, of the appellate and revisional authorities cannot be interfered with by this Court. Unless the grounds of lack of jurisdiction and mala fides are pleaded, it is not possible to interfere with the same. The view expressed by the experts of the Medical Board cannot be found fault with. As of now, the petitioner is unﬁt to discharge the functions of driver. He cannot be continued in the post. The Act may, however, protect the rights of such persons. The petitioner made an application in terms thereof. There cannot be any justiﬁcation for the respondents to keep the application pending, indefinitely. Hence, the writ petition is disposed of, directing the ﬁrst respondent to consider the representation of the petitioner, made under the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, for providing alternate employment; within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. ------------------------------------------------ JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY 17T H SEPTEMBER, 2010. Msnr.