THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.17410 OF 2000 DATED 24TH NOVEMBER, 2011 BETWEEN Thandava Co-operative Sugars Limited, Payakaraopet, Visakhapatnam District, Rep. by its Managing Director, Sri S.Ramangangi Reddy. …Petitioner And Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Visakhapatnam and others. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.17410 OF 2000 ORDER: This writ petition was filed by the management, the petitioner company, assailing the Award dated 10.02.2000 passed by the Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Visakhapatnam, in I.D.No.138 of 1997. The said I.D. was filed by one Nakkana Appa Rao who died during its pendency and his legal representatives came on record in the I.D. They are presently arrayed as respondents 2 to 5 in the writ petition. The writ petition was dismissed as against these respondents pursuant to the order dated 09.04.2009 passed by this Court, owing to the failure on the part of the petitioner company in taking necessary steps for effecting service of notice on them. In the light of the dismissal of the writ petition against respondents 2 to 5 in whose favour an award was passed, its validity cannot be adjudicated in their absence. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed in its entirety. There shall be no order as to costs. ---------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR, J. 24TH NOVEMBER, 2011. PGS/VGSR