IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY NINETH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G. BIKSHAPATHY WRIT PETITION NO : 18662 of 1994 Between: CDR D. Honnothimmaiah S/o. D. Thimmaiah INS Degs, NAD Post, Visakhapatnam-9. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government of India reptd. by its Secretary, Defence Ministry, New Delhi. 2 Chief of the Noval Staff Noval Headquarters, New Delhi. 3 Flag Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Headquarters, Eastern Noval Command Base, Visakhapatnam. 4 Commodore R. N. Bhatia W.P.S. Western Noval Command, C/o. Fleet mail Officer, Bombay. 5 Lt. Co. U.R.Tampi Classified specialist Psychatrist, INHS, Asvini, Coloba, Bombay-5. .....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, order or direction more in the nature of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents 2 and 3 in rejecting the complaint made by the petitioner under sec.23 of the Naval Act, 1957 without holding any enquiry as illegal void and discriminatory and arbitrary and consequentially to direct the first respondent to get the complaint of the petitioner examined in the light of the provisions contained in Sec.23 of the Navy Act, r/w. the Naval Regulations after holding an enquiry with a specified reference to the harassment caused arbitrarily and discriminatory manner by the 4th and 5th respondents and to provide proper redressal to the petitioner. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.M.R.K.CHOWDARY Counsel for the Respondents: MR.H.PRAHALADA REDDY, Addl. Central Government Standing Counsel. The Court made the following : ORDER: 1. In view of the interm orders passed in this writ petition, no further orders are required to be passed. 2. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is closed. No order as to costs. ------------------------------ G.Bikshapathy,J. 29th July, 2004. KM ASSISTANT REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{NR} THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G.BIKSHAPATHY W.P.No. 18662 OF 1994 29th July, 2004