HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION No. 1292 OF 2017

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Petitioner is stated to have been appointed as driver in the respondent – State Road Transport Corporation in 1995. While so, he was declared unfit for the said post during medical examination at Regional Hospital vide medical certificate dated 02-01-2012 and at NIMS through medical certificate dated 28-01-2015. When he was referred to APSRTC Medical Board at Tarnaka, Hyderabad, doctors thereat also held that he was unfit to the post of the driver through medical certificate dated 05-06-2012. Petitioner therefore, requested respondents to provide alternative employment but the latter kept him out of employment for the last three years and they did not pay him salary from 12-01-2012 to 22-05-2015. Thereafter, respondents retired petitioner through proceedings dated 22-05-2015 which is impugned in this Writ Petition. Petitioner contends that the said proceedings is illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the provisions of the APSRTC Service Regulations as well as provisions of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal, Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Partition) Act, 1995 (for short, ‘the Act’) and viola