IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE ELEVANTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 11081 of 1999 Between: Sri D Thati Reddy S/o Venku Reddy R/o Madina Colony, Bhainsa, Adilabad District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The General Manager (Operations) State Bank of Hyderabad, Personal Department Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad, A.P. 2 The Branch Manager State Bank of Hyderabad Bhainsa, Adilabad 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 a Writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate Writ, order or direction in the nature of Writ, directing the respondents to permit me to assume the charge as Head Cashier in State Bank of Hyderabad, (Branch) at Bhainsa in pursuance of the orders in OFFICE ORDER NO:VII A/1/1999-2000 dt. 24/4/1999 issued by the 1st Respondent (namely General Manager, (operation) State Bank of Hyderabad, personal department, Head office, Hyderabad) with all incidental benefits attached to the said post. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.T.CHITTARANJAN Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.A.KRISHNAM RAJU The Court made the following : O R D E R: In this writ petition, the petitioner, who is working as a Clerk-cum-Cashier in the respondent-State Bank of Hyderabad, Bhainsa Branch, seeks directions by way of Mandamus directing the respondents to permit him to assume charge as Head Cashier in the said Bank. The petitioner was appointed as Clerk-cum-Cashier at Bhainsa Branch of the respondent-Bank under Ex-servicemen quota, on 16-08-1996. On 10-04-1999, applications were called for from the eligible candidates, who had been working as Clerk-cum-Cashiers, to redesignate/transfer them as Head Cashiers. In response to the said notification, the petitioner, along with other eligible candidates, has applied for redesignation as Head Cashier. After due verification of all the applications, the first respondent issued orders dated 24-04-1999 conferring redesignations to all the eligible candidates, including the petitioner and posted the petitioner at the same Branch. But when the petitioner wanted to assume charge as Head Cashier, the 2nd respondent did not receive his joining report on the ground that there are telegraphic instructions from the higher-ups not to allow the petitioner to assume charge as Head Cashier. Hence, this writ petition. Counter-affidavit is filed by the respondents, wherein it is stated that in pursuance of the notification dated 10-04-1999, for the Head Cashier post in the Bhainsa Branch, 5 eligible candidates had exercised their options and given their consent to be redesignated/transferred as Head Cashier at Bhainsa Branch and the petitioner was one amongst them. Out of all the five eligible candidates, one Mr. Valiveti Suryanarayana, who was already working as Head Cashier at Yergatla Branch, was the senior most and his name should have been shown in the proceedings dated 24-04-1999 as being transferred and appointed as Head Cashier at the vacancy in the Bhainsa Branch, but due to a typographical error, the name of the petitioner was shown in the proceedings dated 24-04-1999 inadvertently, as having been appointed in the vacancy. Subsequently, when the error was pointed out by the said Valiveti Suryanarayana, it was rectified and the name was corrected as that of Valiveti Suryanarayana. It is further stated that since Valiveti Suryanarayana, who was already working as Head Cashier, had exercised his option to be transferred as Head Cashier at Bhainsa Branch, the question of considering the option of the petitioner, who was only a Cashier, does not arise and the said Suryanarayana had already assumed charge at Bhainsa Branch as Head Cashier. As stated in the counter-affidavit, since the earlier proceedings insofar as the petitioner is concerned, were already rectified and the name of Sri Valiveti Suryanarayana was substituted in place of the petitioner’s name, this Court cannot issue any directions as prayed for by the petitioner to redesignate him as Head Cashier. The writ petition is devoid of merits and is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. _____________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY, J Dated 11th June, 2008 vrn ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1 The General Manager (Operations) State Bank of Hyderabad, Personal Department Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad, A.P. 2 The Branch Manager State Bank of Hyderabad Bhainsa, Adilabad District 3 2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{ESWAR}