THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.4138 OF 2010 Dated 26th April, 2010 Between: Banda Butchi Reddy and another. …Petitioners And The Deputy Secretary to the Government of India and 4 others. …Respondents Counsel for the petitioners : Mr.G.L.Narasimha Rao Counsel for the respondents: None Appeared The Court made the following: Order: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the inaction of the respondents, in considering the petitioners’ applications for sanction of freedom fighter’s pensions under Swatantra Sainik Pension Scheme, as illegal and arbitrary. According to the petitioners, they have participated in Hyderabad State Communist agitation during the period 1947 to 1948 launched against the Nizam Government upto merger of Hyderabad State into Indian Union and that they have gone underground on the instructions of the Congress party under the control of Routhui Rajeswara Rao, Nelamarri Boarder Camp. The petitioners have claimed to have applied to respondent No.1 for pension along with the required documents in the year 1994 which were scrutinised and forwarded by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Miryalaguda, to the District Collector, Nalgonda vide letter, dated 24-12-2001. The petitioners further pleaded that the State Government by its memo, dated 10-07-2003, directed the Revenue Divisional Officer, Miryalaguda, to follow the Government instructions and re-verify all the certificates, documents etc., and that the Revenue Divisional Officer, Miryalaguda, in turn has re-verified and submitted his letter dated 24-12- 2001 recommending the petitioners’ cases as genuine. The grievance of the petitioners is that so far no decision has been taken on their applications. The petitioners also placed reliance on order, dated 27-06-2002, passed by this Court in WP.No.30229 of 1997, wherein the respondents were directed to consider the applications of the petitioners therein and intimate them of the decision taken thereon. Having regard to the above facts, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction to respondent No.3 to forward the applications of the petitioners to respondent No.1 along with the recommendations, if any made by the Revenue Divisional Officer, Miryalguda, Nalgonda District and the District Collector, Nalgonda District, within four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Respondent No.1 shall, on receipt of the petitioners’ applications, dispose of the same within a period of two months and immediately intimate the decision taken thereon to the petitioners. As a sequel to disposal of the Writ Petition, WPMP No.5375 of 2010 filed by the petitioners for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 26th April, 2010 lur