HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 3963 OF 2010 Friday, the Twelfth day of March, Two Thousand and Ten Between R.S. Shankar Reddy Petitioner AND National Geophysical Research Institute, (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) Rep.by its Director, Uppal Road, Hyderabad. Respondent ORAL ORDER: In this writ petition, the petitioner - a Senior Technical Assistant, seeks a direction to declare the action of the respondent in not considering his representation dated 24.08.2009 for withdrawal of his resignation as illegal and arbitrary. When the matter is taken up, learned counsel for the respondent has produced a proceeding by which the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is notified as an Organization under Sec. 14(2) of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985. It is stated that the National Geophysical Research Institute is a lab of Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. In view of the above notification notifying the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research under Sec. 14(2) of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the petitioner has to approach the competent Central Administrative Tribunal for the redressel of his grievance. As such there is no reason for the petitioner to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of this court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Consequently, granting liberty to the petitioner to approach the competent Central Administrative Tribunal, the writ petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. __________________ R.Subhash Reddy, J. March 12, 2010 MAS