K.Sathishkumar v. The Director

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 25.02.2022

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.VAIDYANATHAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMED SHAFFIQ W.P.No. 3744 of 2022

1. K.Sathishkumar

2. R.Raja

3. S.Purushothaman 4.A.Lakshminarayanan 5.S.Jayalakshmi 6.P.Mohan 7.R.Rajesh ... Petitioners -vsThe Director, Directorate of School Education, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Centenary Educational Complex, 100 Feet Road, Anna Nagar, Puducherry- 600 005.

.... Respondent Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus directing the Hon'ble Central Administrative Tribunal , Madras Bench Chennai to dispose of OA.No.310 of 2017 on its file in a speedy manner within the stipulated time frame. For Appellants :Mr.Prakash Adiapadam For Respondents:Mr.R.Syed Mustafa Special Government Pleader (Puducherry)

O R D E R

S.VAIDYANATHAN.,J and MOHAMMED SHAFFIQ.,J The Present Writ Petition has been filed seeking direction to the Central Administrative Tribunal, Madras Bench Chennai to dispose of OA.No.310 of 2017,as expeditiously as possible, within a stipulated period.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that the Original Application filed by the petitioner which is of the year 2017 has been pending for a long time without any progress and therefore the petitioner has approached this Court for early disposal of the said application.

3. Heard both sides. Perused the records.

4. The prayer sought for in this Writ Petition cannot be granted as such, on account of the reason that granting of such relief will amount to opening a Pandora box, which will ultimately result in piling up of cases before this Court.

5. The Special Government Pleader (Puducherry) brought to the attention of this Court that there is no Presiding Officer in the Central Administrative Tribunal and the Judicial Member from Ernakulam is operating through Video Conferencing. He further pointed out that there is only one Judicial member at Chennai. When similar circumstance arose before this Court on the last occasion, this Court has directed Mr.R.Sankaranarayan, Additional Solicitor General to appraise the Government for appointment of required number of Judicial Members to the Tribunal and ensure that there is no stagnation of proceedings before the Tribunals.

6. With the above observations, this Writ Petition is disposed of. No costs.

SD/- ASSISTANT REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SUB ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

arr To 1.The Central Administrative Tribunal , Madras Bench, Chennai.

2.The Director, Directorate of School Education, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Centenary Educational Complex, 100 Feet Road, Anna Nagar, Puducherry- 600 005.

+1cc to Mr.E.Anbarasan, Advocate Sr.12907 +1cc to the Government Pleader Sr.12875 W.P.No.3744 of 2022 sv[co] srg 07/04/2022