HON’BLE MRS. JUSTI CE SUREPALLI NANDA WRI T PETI TI ON No.15819 OF 2020

ORDER:

Heard Sri K.S.Sunil, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development appearing on behalf of the respondent Nos.1 and 3 to 5 and Smt. Shalini, learned Assistant Government Pleader for Services-I I appearing on behalf of the respondent No.2.

2. The petitioner approached the Court seeking prayer as under:

“…to issue an appropriate Writ or Direction or Order, more particularly in the nature of Writ of Mandamus, declaring the action of the respondents in not reinstating the petitioner into services in spite of the acquittal in the criminal case in CC No.290 of 2013 on the file of JFCM at Jadcherla, dt.31.12.2019 and closing of departmental proceedings, as illegal, arbitrary and against the settled principles of law and consequently direct the respondents to reinstate the petitioner into services with all back wages and continuity of service and to pass…..”

3. The case of the petitioner, in brief, is that the petitioner was appointed as a Bill Collector on a temporary basis on 26.02.1994 on compassionate grounds and the petitioner’s s