HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.33174 of 2010 Date: December 29, 2010 Between: P.V. Appa Rao … Petitioner And 1. Visakhapatnam Port Trust, rep. by its Chairman, Visakhapatnam and another. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No.33174 of 2010 ORDER: The writ petitioner, while working as a Hammer man in the Ore Handling Complex of Visakhapatnam Port Trust, has been imposed the punishment of compulsory retirement from service. The foundation for the said order was the conviction handed down to him by competent criminal court. The writ petitioner carried the matter in Criminal Appeal No.110 of 2008 and the Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Visakhapatnam by his judgment dated 18th February 2009 has set aside the conviction and sentence dated 25th July 2008 rendered in C.C. No.549 of 2005. In view of the reversal of the conviction and sentence of the trial court, the writ petitioner was reinstated to duty on 27th May 2009 as a Hammer man. 2. His grievance is that the interregnum period between the order of punishment and reinstatement has not been regularised so far as a result of which several consequences are suffered by him such as not releasing the annual grade increments duly raising his pay and consideration of his case for further promotion etc. He has submitted a detailed representation to the Chairman of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust in that regard on 17th June 2010. No orders are said to be passed thereon. 3. If the Chairman of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust considers the representation/appeal submitted by the writ petitioner on 17th June 2010 and passes appropriate orders thereon perhaps that will put at rest, to the extent permissible under law, the grievance of the writ petitioner. 4. I therefore consider it appropriate to direct the Chairman of the Visakhapatnam Port Trust to take up the representation/appeal said to have been submitted by the writ petitioner on 17th June 2010 and deal with the same as expeditiously as possible and dispose of preferably within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 5. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of at the admission stage after hearing Smt. V. Uma Devi, learned standing counsel for Visakhapatnam Port Trust and with her consent. ________________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J Date: December 29, 2010. BSB