THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA W.P.No.24204 of 2009 11th November, 2009 Between :- P. Prabhakar .. Petitioner And The State of Andhra Pradesh Rep.by its Principal Secretary, Panchayat Raj Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad And 2 others .. Respondents THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.S.NARAYANA W.P.No.24204 of 2009 ORDER:- The matter is coming up for admission. 2. Heard Sri T.Bhimanna, the learned Counsel representing writ petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj. 3. The Writ Petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of respondent no.1 in issuing G.O.Rt.No.1519 Panchayat Raj and Rural Development (PTS.II.A) Dept. dt.23- 10-2009 as illegal, arbitrary and against the principles of natural justice and consequently direct the respondents to continue the petitioner in the post of Sarpanch, N.Palagiri Gram Panchayat, Veerapunayunipalle Mandal, Kadapa District and pass such other suitable orders. 4. It is the case of the petitioner that the petitioner was elected as Sarpanch of N.Palagiri Gram Panchayat, during the year 2006. It is also stated that the 2nd respondent issued Proc. Ref.No.2294/2008-A2 dt.13-10-2008 placing the petitioner under suspension without any application of mind, without examining the factual aspects and without taking the explanation of the petitioner into consideration, It is also stated that the petitioner approached this Court by filing Writ Petition W.P.No.23867/2008 and the same was disposed of at the stage of admission on 18-12-2008. In the order under challenge, after referring to certain facts, the 1st respondent observed as hereunder:- “Government after careful examination of the matter based in the available records, the Revision Petition filed by Sri P.Prabhakar, Sarpanch (u/s), N.Palagiri Gram Panchayat, Kadapa District, is hereby disallowed duly vacating the stay orders issued in the Govt.Memo., dt.17-1-2009.” 5. Except these reasons, no further reasons had been recorded. It is needless to say that this is a statutory revision and the 1st respondent is expected to record reasons in accordance with law. In the light of the same, the impugned Order is hereby set aside and the matter is remitted to the 1st respondent to record appropriate reasons in accordance with law and dispose of the revision within the period of four weeks from the date of receipt of this order. Till appropriate orders are made in the revision by the 1st respondent, let the petitioner be continued as Sarpanch. 6. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is allowed to the extent indicated above. No order as to costs. _________________ Justice P.S.Narayana 11th November, 2009 smr