IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) PRESENT: THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY MONDAY, THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT ONLY WRIT PETITION No.31103 of 1998 Between: T.Appa Rao. … Petitioner And Vizianagaram Co-operative Urban Bank Limited, Vizianagaram, reptd., by its President. … Respondent Counsel for the petitioner: Sri P.Venkata Rama Sarma for Dr. P.B.Vijaya Kumar. Counsel for the respondent: None. This Court made the following: ORDER:- This Writ Petition is filed for a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondent-Bank in not allowing the petitioner to resume his duty, as arbitrary and illegal. The petitioner was working as Peon in the respondent- Bank since 27-7-1985. He claimed that his services were confirmed in the said post in the year 1987. The petitioner was given a show cause notice to explain for his unauthorized absence for a period of 305½ days between April, 1997 to March, 1998, to which he submitted his explanation on 8-5-1998. Evidently, not satisfied with the said explanation, the respondent gave charge memo dated 21-7-1998 to the petitioner. The grievance of the petitioner is that the respondent has neither proceeded with the enquiry nor taken him to duty. No counter-affidavit is filed on behalf of the respondent- Bank and, at the hearing, there is no representation on its behalf. Considering the fact that the charge memo is more than ten years old, I deem it appropriate to dispose of the Writ Petition with a direction to the respondent to complete the enquiry and pass appropriate order in pursuance of charge memo dated 21-7-1998, if not already done, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. Ordered accordingly. ----------------------------- ---------- C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:24-11-2008 MNR