IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 2536 of 2008 Between: 1 The District Collector-cum-Chairman of Selection Machilipatnam, Krishna District. 2 Assistant Director of Survey and Land Records, Machilipatnam, Krishna District. 3 The Commissioner, Survey and Land Records Department, Nampally, Hyderabad. 4 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Secretary, Revenue Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND T. Srinivasa Rao, S/o. T. Satyanarayana Murthy, R/o. 14/43, Edepally, Machilipatnam, Krishna District. .....RESPONDENT 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 to issue an appropriate writ Order, or a direction more particularly one in the nature of the Writ of Certiorari to call for the records relating to and connected with the order dated 10-5-2006 of A.P. of the Hon'ble Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal in OA No. 8576/2005and batch and to declare it as unjust, arbitrary, illegal and contrary to law and set-aside the judgement of the A.P.A. Tribunal in OA No. 8576 of 2005 dated 10-5-2006 and pass such other order or orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case Counsel for the Petitioner:GP FOR SERVICES II Counsel for the Respondent No.: . The Court made the following : Form-NIC-OGS/WP{SPJS} THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.2536 OF 2008 ORDER (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed): This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of Certiorari calling for the records relating to and connected with the order dated 10- 05-2006 in O.A.No.8576 of 2005 on the file of A.P. Administrative Tribunal and to declare the same as illegal and arbitrary and to set aside the order dated 10-05-2006 in O.A.No.8576 of 2005. 2. Earlier questioning the recruitment of Deputy Surveyors- 2005, vide Notification No.L3/10132/2003, dated 08-11-2005, issued by the Commissioner of Survey and Land Records, A.P. Hyderabad, and for setting aside Instruction No.3 (a) of the Instructions to the candidates as being bad in law, several O.As. were filed before the Tribunal . 3. The Tribunal, through its common order dated 10-05-2006, while disposing of the batch of O.As., directed the respondents to finalize the selections by notifying the vacancies in respect of the local candidates. Questioning the said common order, several writ petitions were filed. W.P.No.15265 of 2006, which is also one among those writ petitions, was also filed before this Court and the same was allowed by a Division Bench of this Court on 27-06-2007. 4. Following the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of this Court in W.P.No.15265 of 2006 and the reasons stated therein, this writ petition is also allowed. The order passed by the Tribunal is set aside. No costs. ______________________________ JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED June 19, 2008 ______________________________ JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU