IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SECOND DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 12073 of 2009 Between: N. Venkatramana, s/o. Thimmaiah, R/o. H.No. 6-1-2L (F), Chenna Reddy Colony, Tirupati, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Rep by the Cheif General Manager, Telecommunications, A.P. Circle, Hyderabad. 2 The Assistant Director (Staff I) O/o. Chief General Manager, Telecommunications, Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited, A.P. Circle, Hyderabad. 3 The Assistant General Manager, (Planning) O/o. General Manager, Tirupati Telecom District, Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Tirupati, Chittoor District. 4 The Assistant General Manager, (Administration) General Manager, Tirupati Telecom District, Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Tirupati, Chittoor District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, or order or direction, more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus : (i) declaring the action of the 4th respondent in issuing Lr.No. E/28/Gr.B/XVII/08-09/133 dated @ Tirupati 01-6-2009 excluding the petitioner's name from the list of promoted candidates to the post of Sub-Divisional Engineer (Telecom), without assigning any reasons, despite the petitioner having been promoted to the said post by the competent authorities i.e. the 1st and 2nd respondents through their proceedings in Lr.NO. TA/STA/70/4/Posting of SDEs/Ur 67% 08-09, dated 26-5-2009, by providing a place of posting to the petitioner in the cadre of Sub- Divisional Engineer (Telcom), as has been done in the case of other promotees, and pass Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.D.SESHADRI NAIDU Counsel for the Respondents: MR.Y.RAVINDRA The Court made the following : O R D E R: Heard Sri Y. Ravindra, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents - BSNL. The learned Standing Counsel for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has brought to my notice that the Government of India, through its notification, dated 31.10.2008, have amended the Schedule appended to the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, duly incorporating therein Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited as entry No. 154, with effect from 10.11.2008, and conferred the powers to adjudicate the disputes concerning the service matters of the employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, on the Central Administrative Tribunal. It is, therefore, only appropriate that the writ petitioner should approach the Central Administrative Tribunal first and then alone can approach this Court for reddressal of his grievance, relating to the service matters. For this reason only, the Writ Petition is dismissed, granting liberty to the petitioner to agitate all the questions raised in this Writ Petition before the appropriate Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal. No costs. Registry is directed to return all the original papers filed herein to the learned counsel for the writ petitioner, so as to enable him to produce the same before the Central Administrative Tribunal. __________________________________ (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J.) 22nd June, 2009. lmv/ksld THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.12073 of 2009 22-06-2009 lmv