WP/6673/2025 of KVSN KUMAR Vs THE STATE OF AP

APHC010125712025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3506] (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE CHALLA GUNARANJAN WRIT PETITION NO: 6673/2025 Between: K.V.S.N. Kumar ...PETITIONER AND The State of A.P. and another ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. POODATTU AMARENDER Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR SERVICES II The Court made the following: ORDER: The present writ petition is filed seeking the following relief: “ to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction, more particularly, one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the Respondents in not considering the case of the Petitioner for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer on the ground of pendency of ACB case vide Cr No 12/RCA-ACB- VSP/2021, dated 19.11. 2021, as illegal, arbitrary, discriminatory and violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and consequently, direct the Respondents to consider the case of the Petitioner for promotion to the post of Superintending Engineer without reference to the pendency of ACB case vide Crime No. 12/2021 in accord