IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 18101 of 2008 Between: Dr.Prabhakar S/o.late V.Suryanarayana Mythri Towers Flat No.210 Besides Raghav College Ramnagar Visakhapatnam, (presently working as Dy Manager(Medical) in Hindustan Shipyard Ltd) ..... PETITIONER AND 1 M/s. Hindustan Shipyard Ltd Rep.by its Chairman & Managing Director Visakhapatnam 2 The Board of Directors (Apellate authority for Disciplinary) Proceedings Hindustan Shipyard Ltd Visakhapatnam 3 The Chairman & Managing Director M/s Hindustan Shipyard Ltd Visakhapatnam .....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 writ or an order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in imposing the punishment of reducing the grade of the petitioner from Deputy Manager to Medical Oﬃcer Vide orders of R3 dt 27-7- 2006 and also not considering the statutory appeal ﬁeld by the petitioner on 16-8-2006 and denying the chance of being considered for the post of Manager since 2006 as illegal and constitutional and consequently set aside the order of punishment imposed by the 3rd respondent on 27-7-2006 with all consequential beneﬁts while promoting the petitioner to the post of the Manager forth with. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.K.S.MURTHY Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.S.V.BHATT The Court made the following : ORDER This writ petition is ﬁled seeking a Mandamus declaring the action of the 3rd respondent in imposing punishment of reducing the grade of the petitioner from Deputy Manager to the Medical Oﬃcer vide proceedings dated 27.7.2006 and also not considering the statutory appeal ﬁled by him on 16.8.2006 and denying the chance of being considered for the post of Manager since 2006, as arbitrary and illegal. There is no necessity of going into all the details. It is suﬃce to notice that being aggrieved by the order dated 27.7.2006, whereunder the petitioner was imposed with a punishment of reducing his grade from Deputy Manager to Medical Oﬃcer, he has already ﬁled an appeal on 16.8.2008 before the 2nd respondent. In view of the above, without expressing any opinion on merits, 2nd respondent is directed to dispose of the appeal purported to have been made by the petitioner on 16.8.2008 within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. Writ petition is accordingly disposed of. No costs. __________ 01-09-2008 Note: Issue CC by three days. (B.O) rkk