IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED AND THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.G.SHANKAR WRIT PETITION No. 24456 OF 2010 Between: N.Ashok Kumar ..... Petitioner AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Cooperation, Secretariat Building, Hyderabad and others .....Respondents The Court made the following : JUDGMENT: (per THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMAD) The Writ Petitioner, who was working as Assistant Director of Agriculture, filed OA No. 6375 of 2010 before the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad assailing the order of suspension dated 17.9.2010 passed by the second respondent on the ground of slack supervision in the movement of fertilizers and non-implementation of Fertilizer Control Order, 1985 and also sought suspension of the impugned order as an interim measure, which was refused by the Tribunal. Aggrieved thereby, the present writ petition is filed seeking a writ of mandamus to the effect that the petitioner is entitled for an interim order, as the impugned order dated 17.9.2010 passed by the second respondent is the result of non-application of mind. Admittedly, the above O.A. filed by the petitioner assailing his suspension is pending before the Tribunal for adjudication. In terms of the dicta laid down by the Apex Court in L.Chandra Kumar Vs. Union of India and others ([1]) in the first instance, the Tribunal has to adjudicate the rights of the parties and, as such, when once the matter is seized by the Tribunal, the petitioner is not entitled to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of this court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Therefore, we are not inclined to exercise the extraordinary jurisdiction even before the Tribunal decides the O.A. adjudicating rights of the parties. In this view of the matter, without delving on the merits or otherwise of the contentions sought to be raised presently, we dispose of the writ petition directing the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, to dispose of the O.A. as expeditiously as possible within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No order as to costs. ______________________ Justice Ghulam Mohammed ________________ Justice K.G.Shankar June 8, 2011 Copy in two days //BO// MAS [1] AIR 1995 S.C. 1151