IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE B.SESHASAYANA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 18271 of 2008 Between: B.Laxminarayana S/o.Late B.Rajaiah R/o.H.no.4-5-8/16,Pan Bazar Secunderabad-3 ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Government of India., Rep.the Asst.legal Advisor & Competent Authority, Ministry of Law and Justice Department of Legal Affairs (Notary Cell) 4thFloor,Shastri Bhavan, Dr.Rajendra Prasad Road, New Delhi 2 the Central Public Information Officer, Ministry of Lae and Justice Department of Legal Affairs, Information Cell Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi .....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 suitable writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not considering petitioner memorial for nominating petitioner as Notary for the Greater Hyderabad as illegal, arbitrary, and violative of principles of natural justice and direct the respondents to consider petitioner memorial of Notary with File No.5(1844)2007- NC at earliest point of time. Counsel for the Petitioner: SMT.S.A.V.RATNAM Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following : ORDER This writ petition has been ﬁled by B.Laxminarayana assailing the inaction of the respondents on his application for appointment as Notary for the Greater Hyderabad. The petitioner is an Advocate enrolled with the Bar Counsel of India on 1.2.1995 with enrollment No.AP/394/1995. He submitted application for appointing him as Notary for the Greater Hyderabad. Enquiry is stated to have completed and a letter has been addressed by the ﬁrst respondent 10.12.2007 to the Secretary, Bar Counsel of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad to furnish the information about his enrollment. The grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents have not passed any orders on his application in spite of securing necessary information from the Andhra Pradesh State Bar Counsel. When the writ petition came up for admission, Sri A.Raja Sekhar Reddy, learned standing counsel of Central Government received notice on behalf of the respondents. The limited grievance of the petitioner is that the respondents having called for necessary information from the Andhra Pradesh State Bar Counsel are not passing any orders on his application for appointing him as Notary of Greater Hyderabad. In that view of the matter, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents to consider the application ﬁled by the petitioner for appointing him as Notary for Greater Hyderabad and pass appropriate orders as expeditiously as possible. No costs. _________ 12-11-2008 rkk