IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, TWO THOUSAND NINE PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23500 of 2002 Between: Bathini Venugopal & others. … Petitioners AND The Government of A.P., rep., by its Principal Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad & others. … Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : None Counsel for the respondents: GP for Social Welfare This Court made the following: THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.23500 of 2002 ORDER:- This writ petition is filed for a Writ of Certiorari to quash order dated 17.10.2002 passed by respondent No.2, whereby he cancelled the caste certificates obtained by the petitioners. Under Section 7(2) of the Andhra Pradesh (SC, ST & BCs) Regulation of Issue of Community Certificates Act, 1993 (for short, ‘the Act’) any person, aggrieved by an order passed under Section 5 of the Act by the District Collector, is entitled to avail the remedy of appeal before the Government. No extraordinary reasons are pleaded by the petitioners for filing this writ petition bypassing the statutory remedy of appeal, which undoubtedly is an efficacious one. Therefore, I am not inclined to adjudicate the writ petition on merits and instead the petitioners are relegated to the appellate jurisdiction of the Government under Section 7(2) of the Act. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed without going into the merits of the case with liberty to the petitioners to file appeal before the Government, within a period of three months from today. If such appeal is filed, the Government shall entertain and dispose of the same on merits, without raising any objection on limitation. During the pendency of this writ petition, this Court granted stay of prosecution by making it clear that the certificates of the petitioners shall remain cancelled pending disposal of the writ petition. The said interim order passed on 26.11.2002 by this Court shall remain in force for a period of three months from today to enable the petitioners to seek appropriate relief in the appeal proposed to be filed by them. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, WPMP.No.29470 of 2002 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is also dismissed. ____________________________ C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 12.02.2009 ES