IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.15477 OF 2007 DATED 05-9-2007 BETWEEN S.Ganesh .. Petitioner And The Central Power Distribution Company of A.P.Ltd., Represented by its Superintending Engineer/Operation, Medak Circle at Sanga Reddy. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.15477 of 2007 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not appointing the petitioners as Contract Junior Linemen pursuant to the selection test conducted on 6.6.2007 as arbitrary and illegal and consequently to direct the respondent to appoint the petitioners as Contract Junior Linemen along with others. It is the case of the petitioners that pursuant to the notification issued by the respondent for the posts of Contract Junior Linemen, they have applied for and, in fact, they were interviewed on 6.6.2007; that though they were successful in all the tests conducted by the respondent and were fully qualified and eligible for being appointed, they were neither appointed nor any intimation was sent to them and on the other hand the persons who were interviewed along with them on 6.6.2007 were given appointment orders. S r i P.R.Balarami Reddy, learned standing counsel for the respondent Company, on instructions states that petitioner No.2 had no experience whatsoever and petitioners 1,3 and 4 were engaged for a short period every month for the purpose of spot billing and, therefore, the cases of all the petitioners were not considered for selection and appointment and that the respondent would communicate the orders to the petitioners. In view of the above, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondent to communicate written orders to the petitioners in this regard within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. C.V.RAMULU,J msv 5.9.2007