HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZUL PURKAR W.P.No. 21693 OF 2009 O R D E R: (Hon’ble Sri Justice Vilas V. Afzul Purkar) This Writ Petition is filed by the State, which was arrayed as Respondent Nos. 1 to 3 in O.A.No.10421 of 2008 before the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad. The short question, which fell for consideration before the Tribunal was whether the press note, dated 19.04.2008 said to have been issued by the petitioners herein calling for the counselling of all the candidates with regard to DSC 2002 was the sufficient notice to all the candidates, including the respondent herein. The respondent belongs to Nalgonda District, but residing in Khammam District. His grievance is that neither he was aware of the alleged press note nor was he given any intimation otherwise about the counselling and thereby, he could not attend the same. He has, therefore, approached the Tribunal seeking a relief that rejecting his provisional selection as Grade-II Hindi Pandit on the ground that he did not attend the counseling is illegal. He also sought a consequential direction to appoint him in any vacancy in Grade-II Hindi Pandit in Nalgonda District on par with his juniors in the merit list. On hearing both sides, the Tribunal was of the view that the press note said to have been published by the petitioners was in Nalgonda District and as the respondent is residing in Khammam District, even as per his address given to the petitioners, and as shown in the cause title, he was not aware of the press note and the scheduled counselling. The Tribunal, therefore, has agreed with the respondent that he has suffered prejudice as he was not aware of the counselling and as such, he could not participate in the process of the provisional selection as Hindi Pandit Grade-II. It is interesting to note that the impugned proceedings, dated 17.10.2008 cancelling the provisional selection of the respondent was, however, sent by post to his Khammam address, which itself establishes that he was residing at Khammam and obviously, he was not aware of the press note of the counselling held in Nalgonda District. The Tribunal, therefore, rightly set aside the said rejection and granted relief to the respondent directing the petitioners herein to send a call letter to the respondent either for verification of the certificates or for choosing the place of posting within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of that order. We do not see any error warranting correction in the order impugned in exercise of our certiorari jurisdiction. The Writ Petition is, therefore, devoid of merits and is accordingly, dismissed. The time for complying with the directions of the Tribunal is, however, extended by four more weeks from today. No costs. ------------------------- (V. ESWARAIAH, J) ----------------------------------- (VILAS V. AFZUL PURKAR,J) 15th October 2009 ksld