APHC010507002013 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3457] TUESDAY, THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE HARINATH.N WRIT PETITION NO: 15597/2013 Between: 1. SMT.N.SARADA,, D/O N.SUBBA RAO, AGED 50 YRS, OCC: TELUGU PANDIT GRADE.II R/O FLAT NO.101, SAI DHANALAKSHMI TOWERS, BUTTAIPETA, MACHILIPATNAM, KRISHNA DISTRICT. ...PETITIONER AND 1. THE GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, REP.BY ITS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD. 2. ANNIEBESENT SISU VIDYA MANDIRAM, REP.BY ITS SECRETARY AND CORRESPONDENT, EDEPALLI, MACHILIPATNAM, KRISHNA DISTRICT. 3. THE REGIONAL JOINT DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, KAKINADA, EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT. 4. THE DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL OFFICER, KRISHNA DISTRICT MACHILIPATNAM ...RESPONDENT(S): 2 Counsel for the Petitioner: 1. V SESHA KUMARI Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR EDUCATION 2. ANDAPALLI SANJEEV KUMAR The Court made the following: 3 ORDER:- The petitioner is seeking declaration of the proceedings dated 17.04.2013, as illegal and arbitrary. 2. By proceedings dated 17.04.2013, the 2nd respondent had informed the petitioner and others with regard to the inability of the 2nd respondent to meet the expenditure, including payment of salaries for the petitioner and three others working in the 2nd respondent’s School. 3. This Court on 10.06.2013 granted interim suspension of the impugned proceedings and further directed the 2nd respondent not to engage the services of any other Telugu Pandit either on temporary or ad hoc or casual or part-time or hourly basis. 4. The learned Assistant Government Pleader, on written instructions, submits that the 2nd respondent’s school is closed with effect from 31.05.2019. That apart, the petitioner was aged 50 years when she filed the writ petition and by virtue of the interim order granted by this Court, she had continued in service till 31.05.2019. 5. On these considerations, the writ petition is closed, leaving it open for the petitioner to redress her grievance before the appropriate authority, if she is aggrieved by the closure of the school. No order as to costs. Pending miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand closed. ____________________ JUSTICE HARINATH.N Date.20.01.2026 SR