HON’BLE Mr. JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY Writ Petition No.28397 of 2007 Dated: January 21, 2008 Between: R. Bhaskara Rao, S/o. late Tatayya Naidu, Aged 74 years, R/o.Buddaramam, Prema Samajam, Phoolbagh Road, Vizianagaram, Vizianagaram District, and another. … Petitioners And Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Principal Secretary, Social Welfare (CV.2) Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad, and another. … Respondents Order: This writ petition has been filed seeking Mandamus to declare the action of the first respondent in not passing any orders on the application for interim orders pending review petition filed by the petitioners against the order dated 10-10-2007, passed in G.O.Ms.No.96, Social Welfare (CV.2) Department, as arbitrary and illegal. 2. Petitioners 1 and 2 are father and son. They claim that they belong to ‘Kondakapu’ community. Initially, community certificates were issued in their favour, by the competent authority. However, the District Collector, Vizianagaram, by order dated 07-05-1994, passed in Rc.No.2081/90/C7, cancelled the said certificates. Against the said order, they preferred an appeal before the first respondent-Government under Section 7(2) of the A.P. (Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes) Regulation of issue of Community Certificates Act, 1993 (‘the Act’ for brevity). The appellate authority, i.e. the first respondent-Government, by order dated 10-10-2007, passed in G.O.Ms.No.96, Social Welfare (CV.2) Department, dismissed the appeal filed by the petitioners and confirmed the order of the District Collector. Against the order dated 10-10-2007, petitioners filed a review petition before the first respondent under Section 7(3) of the Act, along with an application seeking suspension of the said order, on the ground that there are errors apparent on the face of the record. 3. This court, at the stage of admission, by order dated 31-12-2007, directed the respondents not to enforce the order of the District Collector till the review petition filed by the petitioners is disposed of. 4. As much as it is stated that pending disposal of the appeal also there was an interim order and the review petition filed by the petitioners is still pending, I dispose of the writ petition directing the first respondent-Government to dispose of the review petition filed by the petitioners against the order dated 10-10-2007 as expeditiously as possible. Till such time, the order of the District Collector shall not be enforced. No order as to costs. __________________________ JUSTICE R. SUBHASH REDDY. January 21, 2008 MRR