IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION No.1206 of 2009 Between: Banala Mutyam Reddy S/o.Venkat Reddy R/o.Nermetta village Chandru Mandal, Nalgonda district ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Government (Union ) of India., rep.by its Under Secretary to Government of India., Ministry of Home Affairs Loknayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi-110003 2 The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep.by Secretary Revenue (FF.II) Department,. Secretariat,Hyderabad 3 The District Collector, Nalgonda, Nalgonda District 4 The Hyderabad Special Screening Committee, (For Central Freedom Fighters pension) Gandhibhavan, Nampally,Hyderabad, rep.by its Chairman 5 The Joint Secretary to Government of India., Ministry of Home Affairs, (FF Division),Loknayak Bhavan Khan Market, New Delhi-110003 .....RESPONDENTS 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 a writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not sanctioning and paying the Central Freedom Fighters pension Under Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme 1980 under HS SC Case as highly illegal, and violation of Articles, 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to sanction and pay the central Freedom Fighters pension under the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme 1980 under HS SC at an early date Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.M.VENKAT RAM REDDY Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1&5: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) Counsel for the Respondent Nos.2 to 4: GP FOR REVENUE The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed questioning the action of the respondents in not sanctioning and paying the Central Freedom Fighters Pension to the petitioner under the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme 1980. The case of the petitioner is that he is a freedom fighter having participated in the freedom struggle in the then Nizam State and that in the month of September, 1997 he made an application for sanction of Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension under the Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme 1980 and his case was taken on file and numbered as No.112/6650/97-FF (with Agenda No.3099). It is stated that as several complaints were stated to be received by the first respondent, with regard to bogus Freedom Fighters, the respondents have done the re-verification and after re-verification, the third respondent-District Collector, Nalgonda, forwarded the re-verification- cum-entitlement reports to the second respondent- Secretary, Revenue (FF.II) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, who in turn forwarded the same to the fifth respondent -Joint Secretary to Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, (FF Division),Loknayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi for consideration vide Lr.No.46499/FF-II(A2)/2008-1, dated 18.09.2008. Though recommendation is made long back and re- verification report has already been forwarded by the second respondent-- Secretary, Revenue (FF.II) Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad, no action has been taken by respondents 1 and 5 so far. Hence, this writ petition. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned Assistant Solicitor General appearing for respondents 1 and 5 and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue appearing for respondents 2 to 4. The learned counsel appearing for the respondents submits that since the application made by the petitioner in the month of September, 1997 is pending consideration before respondents 1 and 5, instead of this Court going into merits of the matter, they may be directed to dispose of the application of the petitioner expeditiously, for which course of action, the learned counsel for the petitioner also agreed. In the circumstances, without going into the merits of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of directing respondents 1 and 5 to consider the application made by the petitioner in the month of September, 1997 and pass appropriate orders after taking into consideration the recommendations made by the second respondent, expeditiously, preferably, within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. N.V.RAMANA, J Dt.03.02.2009 va