(Per GM, J)

This writ petition is filed assailing the legality and validity of the order dated 15.09.2004 passed in O.A. No.1150 of 2004 by the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, (for short, ‘the Tribunal’) whereby the O.A. filed by the petitioner/applicant was dismissed, upholding the punishment of postponement of increments for two years with effect on future increments and pension and treating the suspension period from 22.07.1999 to 25.08.1999 as ‘not on duty’, imposed upon him by the disciplinary authority, the third respondent, which was affirmed in appeal and review, by the second and first respondents respectively.

2. The petitioner was initially recruited as a Police Constable in Adilabad District in the year 1981, subsequently promoted as a Head Constable in the year 1994 and has been working as such. While so, the third respondent issued charge memo bearing C.No.PR/37/99 dated 16.07.1999 to the petitioner which is to the following effect:

“On 10.06.1999 Sri T.Srinivasa Rao, H.C.1306 in charge of the P.S. front guard Madaram left P.S. without permission of S.H.O. and went to Madaram centre along with P.C.2288 on his own Hero Honda Motor Cycle, beat one De