THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.15866 OF 2005 DATED: 13-08-2007 Between: Y. Lakshma Reddy .. Petitioner and The Assistant Commissioner of Labour- cum- Conciliation Officer, Nalgonda, Nalgonda District and another. .. Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.15866 OF 2005 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus declaring the action of the 1st respondent in not numbering and adjudicating the application filed by the petitioner under Section 2(k) of the Industrial Disputes Act (for short ‘the I.D. Act’), as arbitrary and illegal, and consequently to direct the 1st respondent to number the conciliation application and adjudicate the matter. The only grievance of the petitioner seems to be that on 01.07.2004, he filed an application before the 1st respondent-Assistant Commissioner of Labour-cum-Conciliation Officer, Nalgonda, under Section 2(k) of the I.D. Act, for conciliation of the dispute raised by him. But, the said application is neither numbered nor being adjudicated by the 1st respondent till date. Under these circumstances, without expressing any opinion on merits, the 1st respondent is directed to take up the application, dated 01.07.2004, purported to have been filed by the petitioner under Section 2(k) of the I.D. Act and, if the same is in order, he shall proceed with the adjudication and dispose it of, as per law, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ____​__________ C.V. RAMULU, J 13th August, 2007. IBL