WP/498/2024 of KATARU ANAND Vs THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

APHC010002292024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3506] (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN WRIT PETITION NO: 498/2024 Between: Kataru Anand ...PETITIONER AND The State of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. P RAVIKANTH Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR SERVICES I (AP) The Court made the following: ORDER: The present writ petition is filed seeking the following relief: “…. to issue an appropriate writ, order or orders or direction, more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action on the part of respondent No.3 in initiation of Departmental Enquiry for the same set of facts/allegations/witnesses on which a criminal case vide Cr. No.76 of 2019 of Kadiri Urban Police Station before the Court of the Additional Judicial First Class Magistrate, Kadari, Anantapuramu District, pending adjudication instead of waiting for the decision of criminal court, as arbitrary, illegal and quite contrary to well established legal principles in the case of Capt. M. PAUL ANTHONY v. BHARAT GOLD MINE