IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO:4120 of 2003 Between: 1 All Andhra Bank Panelled Sub-Staff Union H.No.18-2-1, Zero Line, Kedareswarapet, Vijayawada. 2 D.Hari Prasad s/o D.Appala Swamy H.No.18-2-1, Zero Line., Kedareswarapet, Vijayawada. 3 G.Raghu s/o G.V.V.Raju 30-19-1, Chaparala Narasaiah Street, Seetharamapuram, Vijayawada. 4 S.Saidulu s/o Anjaneyulu H.No.24-18-35, Durgapuram, Sarabhaiah Temple Street, Saraswathinilayam, Vijayawada. 5 N.Siva Prasad s/o Pothuraju 33-22-15, Seetharamapuram, Vijayawada. 6 V.Ramesh Kumar s/o Dharma Raju Near 7th Town Police Station , Maruthinagar, Vijayawada. 7 G.Malleswara Rao s/o Pothuraju 33-22-15, Seetharamapuram, Vijayawada. 8 N.B.Venkata Subrahmanyam s/o N.S.R.Sastry Bhagath Singh road, Mutyalampadu, Vijayawada. 9 N.Sudheer Babu s/o N.P.Raju 30-24-57A, Seetharamapuram, Vijayawada. 10 Reddy Raju s/o Simhachalam james Appanna Street, Seethannapet, Vijayawada. 11 Y.Durga Prasad s/o Venkateswara Rao LIC Agent, opp.APSEB, Gunadala, Vijayawada. 12 K.Srinivasa Rao s/o Satyam Tirumalasetty vari Street, Satyanarayanapuram, Vijayawada. 13 K.Venkateswara Rao s/o Subba RAo 23-35-51, Lakshminagar, Vijayawada. 14 B.Jaganmohan Rao s/o Boppa Satyanarayana 41-26-11/1, Anand Bhavan Road, Krishna Lanka, Vijayawada. 15 P.Sudhakar Babu s/o Nageshwara Rao Krishnapuram, Krishna District. 16 D.Nancharaiah s/o Venkateswarlu vasanthanagar, Vijayawada. 17 K.Umasankar s/o K.Panduranga Rao 9-47-5, Ganapathi Road, Kumari Street, Road No.5, Vijayawada. 18 T.Murali Gopal s/o T.V.Krishnaiah 31-6-18, Maruthinagar, Vijayawada. 19 D.Madhusudhan Rao s/o Peddaveerraju Gudur Post, Krishna District. 20 G.M.Srinivasa RAo s/o V.Srinivasa Rao Krishnaiah Street, Krishnalanka Vijayawada. 21 P.Venkatadri s/o Koteswara Rao 56-11-13, Sivasankara Street, Patamata, Vijayawada. 22 Sk.Meera s/o Sk.Mastan 11-22-49, R.R.Appa Rao Street, Vijayawada. 23 M.Sambasiva RAo s/o Venkateshwara Rao Mustabad, Gannavaram Mandal, Krishna District. 24 S.Someswara Rao s/o Simhachalam D.No.10-4-106, Mallikarjuanapet, Vijayawada. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 M.D.,Andhra Bank., Dr.Pattabhi Bhavan, 5-9-11, Saifabad Secretariat Road., Hyderabad. 2 G.M.,Andhra Bank Head Office, Dr.Pattabhi Bhavan, 5-9- 11,Saifabad Secretariat Road., Hyderabad. 3 Dy.General Manager.,Andhra Bank, R.R.Appa Rao Street, Vijayawada. 4 Chief Manager.,Andhra Bank, R.R.Appa Rao Street, Vijayawada. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioners:MR.G.S.RAO Counsel for the Respondents: DR.K.LAKSHMI NARASIMHA (SC FOR ANDHRA BANK) The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “………….Issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction or order declaring that the action of teh respondents in issuing the transfer orders dated 6-1-2003 to the petitioners with direction to the respective transferee Branch Managers to terminate their services and in not issuing further posting orders after they reported to the zonal office on 10-2-2003 and leaving them in lurch without posting orders in colorable exercise of power as illegal, arbitrary, unjust and contrary to the scheme formulated by the respondents Bank for absorption and also contrary to the well settled law regarding absorption of the workmen who are working for more than 240 days and violative of fundamental rights guaranteed to the petitioners under articles 14,16,21 and 41 of the constitution of India and the doctrine of Legitimate Expectation and issue consequential direction to the respondent Bank to continue the petitioners in the branches in which they were working as per Hon'ble courts order to continue them in service until further orders and from where they were transferred by the transfer order 6-1- 2003 and pay them wages from 6-1-2003 and onwards.” At the hearing, the learned counsel for both the parties agreed that the issues raised in this writ petition are squarely covered by common order, dated 27.12.2007 passed by this Court in Writ Petition Nos.20764 and 22061 of 2000. Following the same, this writ petition is dismissed with the direction that the observations contained in the said order shall form part of this order. As a sequel to dismissal of main petition, WPMP.No.31025 of 2008 is dismissed as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 25th NOVEMBER, 2008. kvni