IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH and THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 12061 of 2000 Between: V.Kesava Rao ..... PETITIONER AND The Commissioner of Tribal Welfare, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad and three others. .....RESPONDENT(S) HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY W.P.No.12061 of 2000 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice V.Eswaraiah) Admittedly, the petitioner was appointed as Junior Assistant and was allotted to the Irrigation Department in the Irrigation Circle, Warangal. Thereafter, he was deputed to the Tribal Welfare Engineering Department by the deputation orders issued by the Commissioner on 13-12-1992. Since then he was working as Junior Assistant on deputation basis and subsequently, on his application seeking promotion to the Senior Assistant, he was promoted as Senior Assistant on ad-hoc basis in deputation department purely on temporary basis. While so, the petitioner was repatriated as Junior Assistant to the Irrigation Department by the proceedings dated 04-10-1993. Challenging the same, the petitioner filed O.A.No.5485 of 1993 on the file of the A.P. Administrative Tribunal (for brevity ‘the Tribunal’). The Tribunal disposed of the said O.A. directing the respondents to consider the case of the petitioner for absorption in the Tribal Welfare Department. Pursuant to this order, the petitioner made an application to consider his case for absorption. His application was rejected by the respondents vide proceedings dated 07-01-1999, accordingly ordered for reversion to the post of Junior Assistant. Questioning the same, the petitioner filed the present O.A.No.124 of 1999, and the Tribunal, by order dated 07-06-2000, dismissed the O.A. holding that the petitioner has no right to seek absorbtion in the Tribal Welfare Department since the petitioner belongs to Panchayat Raj Department and is working in the Tribal Welfare Engineering Department only on deputation basis. In view of the above facts and circumstances, we are of the opinion that the Tribunal has rightly passed the impugned order. We do not see any illegality in the impugned order passed by the Tribunal. The writ petition is devoid of merits and the same is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. No costs. _____________________ JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH ___________________________ 13th August 2009 JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY Kvr