HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY ORDER:

(per Hon’ble Sri Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty)

This Writ Petition is filed aggrieved by the order dated

01.05.2008 passed in OA.No.2039 of 2004 on the file of the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad, (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’) whereunder the said OA was dismissed.

2. Heard Sri D.Linga Rao, learned counsel for petitioners and learned Government Pleader for Women Development and Child Welfare appearing for respondent Nos.1 and 2.

3. Originally, this Writ Petition was filed by the delinquent employee-Sripathi Tarigopula/petitioner No.1 and during the pendency of the Writ Petition, he died and as such, his legal representatives were brought on record as petitioner Nos.2 and 3.

4. Brief factual matrix of the case, shorn off unnecessary details, is that petitioner No.1 was appointed as District Probation Officer Grade-II in the month of January, 1975 and was promoted as District Probation Officer Grade-I in the year 1981 and further promoted as Superintendent/Regional Inspector of Probation on 16.08.1994; that while working as such, from 17.08.1994 to 04.10.1999, on a co