THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED & THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WP No.25386 OF 2009 Between: Pulivarthy Chenchu Mastanachary ……………Petitioner & Commissioner of Endowments and Other …………..Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED & THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WP No.25386 OF 2009 ORDER: ( per Hon’ble Sri Justice Ghulam Mohammed, J ) This writ petition is filed assailing the order dated 10-11- 2009 passed by the AP Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, (for short, ‘the Tribunal’) in OA No.11824 of 2009, whereby the Tribunal while ordering notice before admission, declined to pass an interim order as prayed for by the petitioner/applicant. 2. This writ petition is misconceived. The Tribunal thought it proper to order notice before admission while refusing to grant interim order after considering the case record. Denial of an interim order, at the threshold will not entitle the petitioner, as a matter of right, to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court. The Tribunal deemed it appropriate that notice be given to the opposite side so as to invite a counter for adjudication of the matter on merits. 3. The Supreme Court in L. CHANDRA KUMAR vs. UNION OF INDIA1, inter alia, held that in the first instance, the Tribunal shall adjudicate the matter and decided the rights of the parties on merits. Mere ordering of notice in an interlocutory petition does not amount to rendering of a decision on merits. In the present case, the Tribunal has neither committed a jurisdictional error nor exceeded its limits. The Tribunal, considering the facts and circumstances of the case, merely declined to exercise its jurisdiction in granting an interim order while ordering notice before admission to the opposite party. The Tribunal, in our opinion, did rightly so and there is no jurisdictional error muchless any illegality or irregularity in the order. 4. In that view of the matter, we are not inclined to exercise our certiorari jurisdiction in the instant case. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. No costs. ____________________ 22nd February, 2010 Nrg. 1 AIR 1997 SC 1125