THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SAM KOSHY AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SUDDALA CHALAPATHI RAO Writ Petition No.12952 of 2025 ORDER: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice P.SAM KOSHY The instant Writ Petition is filed by the petitioner under Article

226 of the Constitution of India praying the Court for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus by directing the respondents, viz., (i) to not proceed with departmental inquiry against the petitioner pursuant to charge- memo issued to the petitioner vide order No.CCC-HYD/AW/E2/DE- 04/24/4568/2024, dated 09.09.2024, (for short, ‘the impugned memo’) since on the same set of facts, the criminal case registered against the petitioner vide FIR No.10/RCT-CR-1/2024, dated 02.05.2024, on the file of P.S. A.C.B., City Range-I is pending against the petitioner; and (ii) to declare the action of respondents in not promoting the petitioner notionally as Grade-I Panchayath Secretary w.e.f. 19.01.2021 as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and in violation of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India.

2. Heard Mr. Srinivasa Rao Madiraju, learned counsel for the petitioner; and Mr. Vivek Jain, learned counsel for the respondents.

3. The facts in brief are that petitioner wa