ORDER :

1. This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is filed seeking the following relief:

“.......to issue a Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the proceedings in Rc. No. 161/2021431, dated 7.8.2021 issued by the District Audit Officer, State Audit Ananthapuram, Ananthapuram District rejecting the claim of the petitioner for payment pension and abruptly stopping payment of pension to the petitioner as wholly illegal, arbitrary, violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution of India apart from being violative of principles of natural Justice and consequently declare that the petitioner is entitled for payment of pension uninterruptedly and pass and to pass such other order.....”

2. The case of the petitioner in brief is that initially the petitioner herein was appointed as Helper on 14.08.1986 in Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Rural Irrigation Corporation Limited, Anantapur. Later, the services of the petitioner were regularized and probation was declared in the cadre of Helper from 31.12.1991.

3. While so, the Executive Engineer/3rd respondent, Andhra Pradesh State Co-operative Rural Irrigatio