IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.3103 of 2009 Between: Mohd. Osman S/o. Md. Sharfuddin H.No. 6-2-13, Mairaj Masjid, Sadal Gundu, Mahaboobnagar - 01. ..... PETITIONER AND The Depot Manager APSRTC. Kusaiguda Depot, R.R. Dist. .....RESPONDENT Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.S.I.VARAHA GIRI Counsel for the Respondent:MR.K.MADHAVA REDDY(SC FOR APSRTC) The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to set aside order, dated 23.06.1988 passed by the respondent. On 21.04.2009, when this Court pointed out the delay of 20 years in the petitioner approaching this Court, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that as the petitioner filed appeal against the impugned order and the same was not disposed of, he could not approach this Court earlier. As the petitioner failed to either raise a pleading in this regard or file any material in support of the contention of the learned counsel, this Court directed the learned Standing Counsel to verify whether any such appeal is filed by the petitioner or not. Today, at the hearing, Sri K.Madhava Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for the respondent submitted that there is no evidence of petitioner filing an appeal and the records pertaining to the impugned order were destroyed after obtaining administrative approval. In my considered view, this writ petition filed 20 years after the impugned order was passed suffers from uncondonable laches. As noted earlier, neither the petitioner pleaded that he filed an appeal nor he submitted any evidence in this writ petition to show that he filed any such appeal. Therefore, the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner cannot be accepted. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed on the ground of laches, without going into the merits of the contentions raised by the counsel for the petitioner. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP.No.4013 of 2009 filed by the petitioner is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 27th APRIL, 2009. kvni