HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G. SHANKAR W.P. No. 19828 of 2011 DATED: 22.07.2011 Between:- S. Sunitha .. Petitioner A N D The Chairman, State Level Police Recruitment Board and five others .. Respondents O R D E R: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed) The petitioner asserts that she applied for the post of Assistant Public Prosecutor from Zone-V, and subsequently, she attended the interview, but the 1st respondent – Chairman, State Level Police Recruitment Board, selected the 5th respondent, who belongs to Zone- 1, in the existing vacancy that falls in Zone-V. Being aggrieved by the selection of the 5th respondent, the petitioner filed O.A.No. 5636 of 2011 before the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, along with an application for suspension of the selection proceedings. Now, the petitioner’s grievance is that the Tribunal, except ordering Notice Before Admission, has not passed interim orders suspending the provisional selection of the 5th respondent to the post of Assistant Public Prosecutor under Zone-V. Hence, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition seeking appropriate directions. Heard the learned counsel for both the parties and perused the material placed on record. Either to grant or not to grant interim suspension or stay of any proceedings is purely the prerogative or discretion of the Tribunal. In the instant case, inasmuch as the Tribunal has neither rendered any decision on the application for suspension of the selection proceedings of the 5th respondent on merits nor adjudicated the rights of the parties, and the matter is seized by the Tribunal, we are not inclined to go into the merits of the case at this juncture. In the circumstances, we deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition with a direction to the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad to dispose of the O.A. No. 5636 of 2011, expeditiously, preferably, within a period of two weeks from today after affording reasonable opportunity to the respondents to put forth their version. Accordingly, this writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _____________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J 22.07.2011 _______________ K.G. SHANKAR, J bcj