HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S. NARAYANA WRIT PETITION NO. 25314 OF 2006 DATE: 29.10.2007 Between: Borla Laxmaiah @ Kukkamudi Laxmaiah, S/o Rajaiah aged about 83 years. …Petitioner AND 1. Union of India represented by its Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Loknayak Bhavan, New Delhi and one another …….Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S. NARAYANA WRIT PETITION NO. 25314 OF 2006 ORAL ORDER: This Court issued Rule Nisi on 6.12.2006. Heard the learned counsel for the Writ Petitioner Sri S.Sreenivas Reddy and Mrs. Saraswathi, learned counsel representing the respondents 1 and 2. The Writ petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to pass appropriate orders for disposing of the application of the petitioner for grant of pension under Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme 1980 and pass appropriate orders forthwith. It is stated that the petitioner submitted all the required documents to the authorities on their letters dated 13.8.1998, 20.11.1998 and 13.7.2000 and the authorities concerned have received the same got examined and sent a favorable report to the first respondent on behalf of the Government of A.P. vide letter No. 62836/FF-IIA(1) 1998-6 dated 15.10.2003. The main grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents are not disposing of the application of the petitioner for grant of pension under Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980. In the light of the above facts and circumstances, let the first respondent dispose of the application of the petitioner for grant of pension under Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980, in accordance with law, within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _______________________ P.S. NARAYANA, J Date: 29.10.2007 KA