IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 9529 of 2004 Between: Mohd. Amzad Ali S/o Nabi Saheb Subashnagar Telephone Exchange Karimnagar Dist ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limted represented by the Director General New Delhi 2 The Chief General Manager Telecom, Bharath Sancher Nigam Limited Hyderabad-500 001 3 The General Manager Karimnagar District Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited Karimnagar, AP. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus and to declare the action of respondents in not regularizing the services of petitioner as arbitrary and discriminatory and unconstitutional and consequently to direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioner and to provide him opportunity to compete for absorption into Lineman cadre with all consequential benefits. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.P.NAVEEN RAO Counsel for the Respondents: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is ﬁled for a writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not regularizing the services of the petitioner as illegal, arbitrary, and discriminatory, and consequently direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioner and to provide him an opportunity to compete for absorption into Lineman cadre, with all consequential benefits. The grievance of the petitioner is that though he acquires the status of a casual labourer and entitled for the beneﬁt of the scheme contemplated in letter, dated 07.11.1989, his case was not considered for regularization. Learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Standing Counsel for BSNL appearing for the respondents submits that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in W.P.No.24783 of 2004, dated 17.06.2008. In view of the same, following the said judgment, this writ petition is disposed of, with the following direction. The respondents are directed to consider the case of the petitioner, in terms of the Scheme, dated 07.11.1989 i.e. “Casual Labourers (Grant of Temporary Status and Regularisation) Scheme, for temporary status and regularization, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________ G.CHANDRAIAH, J Dt:04.09.2008. GJ The case of the petitioner is that he was appointed as Casual Mazdoor in Andhra Pradesh Telecom on 01.03.1988 in Karimnagar District, and since, then he has been working continuously without any complaint whatsoever. While so, the respondents terminated his services, on the ground that he had submitted bogus work days certificate, at the time of joining the service in Karimnagar. The above termination order was the subject matter of O.A., before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad and also before this Court in W.P.No.23456 of 1998 and batch. The learned counsel also submitted that in similar circumstances, this Court disposed of W.P.No.24783 of 2004, dated 17.06.2008, and therefore, this writ petition can also be disposed of in terms of the said judgment. Learned counsel appearing for the respondents also submitted that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in W.P.No.24783 of 2004, dated 17.06.2008.