ORDER :

A.V. Sesha Sai, J.

This Writ Petition is directed against the order dated 04.12.2015 passed by the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal (hereinafter called, ‘the Tribunal’) in O.A.No.4890 of 2009. By way of the said order, the Tribunal dismissed the Original Application, filed by the petitioner herein under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.

2. Briefly stated the facts and circumstances, leading to the filing of the present Writ Petition are as follows :

The petitioner herein was a Surveyor in Survey, Settlement and Lands Records Department. On the basis of a complaint made by one Sri Muniswami, saying that the petitioner demanded amount from him for doing official favour by way of sending survey report to the Mandal Revenue Officer, Narayanavanam Mandal and consequent upon the trap laid by the Anti Corruption Bureau Officials, the State Government referred the case to the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings and the Tribunal for Disciplinary Proceedings had taken up the same, vide Tribunal Enquiry Case No.135 of 2003 and framed the following charge against the petitioner:-

"CHARGE: That you – Sri J. Venkata Muni, while working as Mandal Surveyor, O/o. the