IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G.BHAVANI PRASAD WRIT PETITION NO : 5017 of 2007 Between: S.Dhananraju S/o.Late S.Kamnayya O/o.Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer, Kakinada East Godavari District ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by its Principal Secretary,Backward class welfar Department Secretariat, Hyderabad A(AP) 2 The Director of Backward class Welfare, Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 3 Sri G.Laxminarayana, Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 4 Sri J.Chinnappaiah, Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer (Retd) Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 5 T.Krishna Murthy, Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 6 Sri P.V.Ramana Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 7 Sri T.Suryanarayana, Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 8 Sri R.K.Simhachalam, Assistant B.C.Welfare officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 9 Sri P.Y.Sadananda Rao, Assistant B.C.Welfare officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 10 Sri. K.Rajeshwar Rao, Assistant B.C.Welfare officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad 11 Sri.R.Sridhar Reddy, Assistant B.C.Welfare officer Mutli Zone-I O/o.Director of Backward class Welfare Telugu Samkshama Bhavan, Masab Tank,Hyderabad .....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 order or direction more in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the proceedings No.A2/7384/2005 dated 20.2.2007 as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory, unjust and unconstitutional violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the constitution of Indian, by duly declaring the order of the Hon`ble AP Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad made in OA.No.1301 of 2007 dated 6.3.2007 as illegal, arbitrary, contrary to law and unconstitutional by holding that the petitioner is entitled to be shown in the seniority list of Assistant B.C.Welfare Officers of Multi Zone-I, based on the ranking assigned by the AP public service commission above the respondents 3 to 11 and further direct the respondents 1 and 2 to fix the seniority of the petitioner in the category of Assistant B.C.Welfare Officer Multi zone-I, as per the ranking assigned by the APPSC in Direct Recruitment of 1990 over and above the respondents 3 to 11 and consequently consider the case of the petitioner for promotion to the post of District B.C.Welfare officer, in the existing or ensuing vacancies with all consequential benefits such as seniority arrears of salary etc. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.R.V.MALLIKARJUNA RAO Counsel for the Respondents : GP FOR SERVICES II The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of mandamus to declare the proceedings dated 20.02.2007 issued by the second respondent and the order dated 06.03.2007 passed in O.A.No.1301 of 2007 by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, as illegal and arbitrary. While admitting the said O.A. on 06.03.2007, the Tribunal ordered notice to the respondents, passed an interim direction that any promotions made shall be subject to the further orders in the O.A. and posted the matter along with O.A.No.5906 of 2006. Since O.A.No.1301 of 2007 is still pending, without expressing any opinion on merits, we deem it appropriate to dispose of the writ petition by directing the Tribunal to dispose of the said O.A. within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. _____________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J _____________________ G.BHAVANI PRASAD, J Date: 13.11.2008 Note: Furnish CC within one week. (Bo) sj ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{TRK}