IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE TWENTY THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT HON'BLE SRI DEVINDER GUPTA, CHIEF JUSTICE and HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 20909 of 1995 Between: K. Md.Haneef, S/o.Abdul Haneef, Kolhapet Street, Kurnool Town, Kurnool District ..... PETITIONER AND The District Judge, Kurnool District Courts, Kurnool 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 issue an appropriate writ order or direction more particularly in the nature of writ of mandamus, declaring the action of the respondent in terminating of the petitioner's service without giving opportunity, as illegal, arbitrary and against the principle of natural justice and to direct the respondent to consider the post of Attender in the respondent -organisation. Counsel for the Petitioner : MR. N. RAVI PRASAD ( Not Present ) Counsel for the Respondent : None appeared. The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: ( per Hon’ble The Chief Justice ) ….. 1. None appeared for the petitioner. 2. Petitioner was appointed temporarily as Process Server and on 2nd May, 1985 his services were terminated. Petitioner did not challenge those proceedings and waited and in the month of September, 1995, he filed this writ petition stating that two other Process Servers, who were likewise terminated, were reinstated by orders passed subsequently. May be that others, who were likewise were terminated in same proceedings, got reinstated subsequently, but that alone is not sufficient in quashing the petitioner’s termination in a petition filed after ten years of his termination. There is no merit in the writ petition and the same is hereby dismissed. No costs. ____________________ DEVINDER GUPTA. C.J., _______________________ B. SESHASAYANA REDDY. J., Dated: 23.12.2004. VRK. To 1. The District Judge, Kurnool District Courts, Kurnool District. 2. Two CD copies. HON’BLE SRI DEVINDER GUPTA, CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B. SESHASAYANA REDDY. W.P.NO. 20909 OF 1995. ( Order of the Bench delivered by Hon’ble The Chief Justice ) Dt: 23.12.2004.