THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 33316 of 2010 O R D E R: The writ petitioner is a driver working in the unit of the District Medical and Health Officer, Anantapur District. He sought to question the action of the respondents in not upgrading him as a senior driver from light motor vehicles drivers’ cadre. This is a service dispute concerning a government servant. In view of the ratio laid down in L. Chandrakumar vs. Union of India[1], the government servants are required to invoke the jurisdiction of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal created under the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 for the first time and in case, the grievance still subsists thereafter, they can approach this Court, but at the very first instance, they cannot file a writ petition concerning a service dispute. Therefore, this Writ Petition is dismissed only on the ground that the writ petitioner had to approach the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal at the first instance. Let the registry return all the original papers filed by the petitioner, so as to enable him to present the same before the A.P. Administrative Tribunal. ---------------------------------- (NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J) 31st December 2010 ksld [1] AIR 1997 Supreme Court 1125