IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD SATURDAY THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND ELEVEN PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO. 31899 OF 2011 Between: T. Ramaswamy … Petitioner V/s. The Government of Andhra Pradesh Represented by its Commissioner of Collegiate Education, Hyderabad & 2-Ors. … Respondents Counsel for the Petitioner : Sri Madhava Rao Nalluri Counsel for the Respondents : GP for Higher Education The Court made the following : (Order follows next page) THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO. 31899 OF 2011 O R D E R : Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Higher Education. 2. This writ petition is ﬁled by the petitioner seeking issuance of writ of mandamus, declaring the action of the second respondent in not disposing of the appeal ﬁled by the petitioner dated 02-09-2010 aggrieved by the order passed. By the third respondent in imposing penalty of stoppage of two annual grade increments with cumulative eﬀect is illegal, arbitrary and violation of Article 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and consequently to direct the second respondent to dispose of the appeal ﬁled by the petitioner on 02-9-2010 and to pass such other suitable orders as this Court may deem ﬁt and proper in the circumstances of the case. 3. Having regard to the relief sought for in the writ petition, this writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. 4. Few facts for disposal of this writ petition are as follows: The petitioner is working as Lecturer in the discipline of Zoology in the third respondent-college. While so, the third respondent passed an order on 09-08-2010. It is the contention of the petitioner that he is working as Lecturer in the discipline of Zoology in the third respondent-college and while so, the correspondent of the third respondent-college issued the Proceedings dated 09-08-2010 imposing penalty of stoppage of two annual grade increments with cumulative eﬀect consequent to the disciplinary proceedings initiated against him. The main contention of the petitioner is that aggrieved by the order dated 09-8-2010 passed by the third respondent, he preferred an appeal before the second respondent i.e., the Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education, Guntur on 02-09-2010 and till today the said appeal is not disposed of. Therefore, he ﬁled the present writ petition seeking direction to the second respondent to dispose of the appeal filed by him on 02-9-2010. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the third respondent-college without any valid reasons imposed punishment on the petitioner. Having aggrieved by the same, the petitioner ﬁled statutory appeal on 02-09-2010 and the same is still pending on the file of the second respondent. 6. Having regard to the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader, this writ petition is disposed of with the following direction: Without going into merits of the case, the second respondent is directed to consider and dispose of the appeal dated 02-09-2010 said to have been ﬁled by the petitioner against the order dated 09-08-2010 of the third respondent- Secretary-cum-third respondent on merits and in accordance with law, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 7. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of at the stage of admission. ------------------- ----------------- JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH 03-12-2011 I s L THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO. 31899 OF 2011 CIRCULATION No. Date:03-10-2011 Court Master: I s L Computer No. 43