IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 9031 of 2008 Between: Sri Jami Prasad Rao, S/o. Suryanarayana. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Vice Chairman & Managing Director, A.P. Scheduled Castes Cooperative Finance Corporation Masab Tank, Hyderabad. 2 The Executive Director, District Schedule Caste Service Cooperative Society Limited, Adilabad, Adilabad District. .....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 appropriate Writ, Order or directions more particularly in the nature of MANDAMUS declaring the Memo No. SC/A/2739/2007 Dt. 7-3-2008 issued by the 2nd respondent rejecting the joining report submitted by the petitioner as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice and unjust and direct the respondents to permit the petitioner to join duty. Counsel for the Petitioner:MRSRINIVAS KARRA Counsel for the Respondents: M.GANGA RAO(SC FOR APSCCFS,HYD) The Court made the following : ORDER: The petitioner is employed as Assistant Executive Engineer in the District Schedule Caste Service Co-operative Society Limited, Adilabad, the second respondent herein. He remained absent with effect from 01.01.2008 and submitted joining report on 03.03.2008 to the second respondent. On 05.03.2008, the second respondent issued a memo, requiring the petitioner within seven days as to why the period of absence shall not be treated as ‘dies non’ and other steps shall not be initiated. The petitioner submitted representation on 06.03.2008. However, the second respondent issued a memo stating that the petitioner failed to submit the explanation within three days and rejected the application for reporting duty. The petitioner challenges the same. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. Several contentions are urged across the bar, in relation to the impugned memo, dated 07.03.2008. A subsequent development has taken place in the form of a letter, dated 02.04.2008, issued by the first respondent to the second respondent, wherein a direction was issued to permit the petitioner to join duty and frame charges thereafter. With this, the grievance of the petitioner stands redressed. The second respondent shall forthwith comply with the directions issued by the first respondent, dated 02.04.2008. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. It shall be open to the petitioner to put forward all his contentions, as regards the period of absence. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ Dt.28.04.2008 L.NARASIMHA REDDY, J Note:Furnish C.C. in two days. (B/o) GJ ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1.2CCs to 2.2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{SPJS}