IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 25903 of 2007 Between: B.S. Vasanth Kumar S/o Late B.P.Kanakaratnam The oriental Insurance Co. Ltd., 4, Esplanade, Chennai ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd., rep by its Chairman, Oriental House PB No. 7037 A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi 11002 2 The General Insurance (Public Sector) Association of India, rep by its chairman, 8th Floor, Jeevan Vihar (Rear Portion) Sansadmarg, New Delhi-11001. 3 The Central Bureau of Investigation rep by its Superintendent of Polcie Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of a writof Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not promoting the petitioner to the scale VI post of Deputy General Manager on account of the pendency of criminal case registered by the 3rd Respondnet in Crime NO. RC01(A)/2005 dt 13/01/2005 as arbitrary and illegal and consequentlydirect the 1st & 2nd Respondents to promote the petitioner to the Scale VI post of Deputy General manager from the date when his immediate Junior was promoted i.e, 22/07/2007 with all consequential beneﬁts and pass and such other order or orders as this Honourable Court deems ﬁt and proper inthe circumstances of the case. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.S.SATYAM REDDY Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.T.NIRANJAN REDDY The Court made the following : THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.25903 of 2007 ORAL ORDER: The only grievance of the petitioner in this writ petition seems to be that his promotion was not considered by the respondents in view of pendency of criminal case against him before the competent Criminal Court. The learned counsel appearing for respondents Mr.V.Srinivas, on the basis of record, which was also shown to the learned counsel for petitioner, stated that the petitioner was denied promotion not on the ground of pendency of criminal case, since he could not come up for selection, his case was not considered. In view of the same, the writ petition is devoid of merits and liable to be dismissed and accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. _____________ C.V.RAMULU, J Date: 14.10.2008 DA THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.25903 of 2007 14.10.2008