THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH W.A.No.524 of 2011 JUDGMENT (Per Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed) The petitioner filed this appeal aggrieved by the order of dismissal dated 11.04.2011, passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.No.1677 of 2011, filed seeking to declare the charge sheet along with the order of suspension dated 25.01.2011, issued by the respondent on the ground of cash and ticket irregularities, as illegal and arbitrary. 2. The learned Single Judge of this Court by the order impugned has considered the contentions of the parties, in the light of the charges framed in the charge sheet dated 25.01.2011, and found that serious allegations are made against the petitioner with regard to not accounting for the sale proceeds in respect of certain tickets and also not exhibiting correct display board, which caused loss of revenue to the respondent-APSRTC. The said charges read as under: Charge-1: For having checked your Service Bus by TTIs at Ramdevguda Stage 3/2 at about 16.50 hours and found that the Service No.98/2 operated with Destination Board of Kukatpally to Mehdipatnam instead of exhibiting actual Route Course Destination Board with skelton service without picking up the enroute passengers while proceeding to Vasavi Engineering College, Ibrahimbagh as per MTD-141 Card instructions which resulted in loss of legitimate revenues of Corporation and inconvenience to travelling public and constitutes misconduct under Clause 28 (xxxi) of APSRTC Employees’ (Conduct) Reg.1963. Charge-2: For having closed ticket tray numbers of all denominations upto stage No.1 (Vasavi Eng.College) in advance except Rs.4/-, Rs.5/- and Rs.6/- denomination tickets and failed to account the sale proceeds of Rs.5/- den.tickets bearing No.076/077428 to 435=8 tickets) upto check point (Stage 3/2) despite crossing the fare stages in STAR document No.090/114232. Hence, the TTIs marked as XXX in STAR (Rs.4/-, Rs.5/- & Rs.6/-den. Only) duly confiscated the STAR and issued substitute STAR for further operation of service bus which constitutes misconduct under clause 28 (vi-a)(xxxii) of APSRTC Employees (Conduct) Regulations, 1963. 3. The disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the petitioner on the ground that he committed certain irregularities. However, validity of charges framed against the petitioner would be decided only after a detailed enquiry. The petitioner has not submitted his explanation to the said charge memo. Since the suspension pending enquiry is not a punishment and as the learned Single Judge of this Court while dismissing the writ petition by the impugned order granted the petitioner two weeks time for submitting his explanation to the charge sheet from the date of the order impugned, we are not inclined to interfere with the order impugned. Accordingly, the Writ Appeal is dismissed. No costs. ______________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J _________________ G. CHANDRAIAH, J Date:18.07.2011 sj