THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTIVE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO. 24861 OF 2007 DATED: 23-11-2007 BETWEEN: M. Satyam Naidu, S/o. late Raminaidu … Petitioner And 1. The District Collector, Srikakulam, Srikakulam District and another … Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTIVE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO. 24861 OF 2007 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not disposing of the appeal dated 18- 08-2003 filed by the petitioner as illegal and arbitrary. It appears, the petitioner while working as Secretary of Rana Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society (PACS) Jalumuru Mandal, Srikakulam District was placed under suspension and thereafter, he was dismissed from service by an order dated 17- 07-2003. Now, it is the grievance of the petitioner that aggrieved thereby he had preferred an appeal on 18-08-2003 before the first respondent-District Collector and the said appeal is neither taken up for hearing nor disposed of till date. In view of the above, without expressing any opinion on merits, the first respondent is directed to dispose of the appeal purported to have been filed by the petitioner on 18-08-2003 aggrieved by the order dated 17-07-2003 passed by the Special Officer, Rana, PACS, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that during the pendency of the enquiry for the period for which the petitioner was kept under suspension, no subsisting allowance has been paid. In this regard, the petitioner is at liberty to file an appropriate application before the authorities concerned and the authorities shall consider the same and pass appropriate orders. Writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No order as to costs. ___________ 23-11-2007 Rns. THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTIVE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO. 24861 OF 2007 DATED: 23-11-2007