IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 5962 of 2007 Between: 1 Railway Board, rep.by its Member secretary, Rail Bhavan, New Delhi 2 General Manager, South Central Railway, Rail Nilayam, Secunderabad 3 Divisional Railway manager, Vijayawada Division South Central Railway, vijayawada 4 Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer, Traction Rolling Stock, Electrical Loco shed, vijaywada ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 Parusuramaiah S/o.Venkateshwarlu R/o.H.No.26-14-1, Akulasambaiah Street, Rama Rajyanagar,Kabela Centre, Vijayawada-3 2 T.T.Adikesava Chari S/o.T.Govinda Chari R/o.D.No.New MIG-I, Block No.4/7, New APHB colony Bhavanipuram, vijayawada-12 3 A.Kotilingam S/o.Ramachandram R/o.Old MIG Block No.112/3, Old APHB colony Bhavanipuram, Vijaywada-12 4 N.Ferdinand S/o.N.Williams R/o.Rly Quarter No.173/I, Satyanarayanapuram Vijayawada- 11 5 A.Suryaprabhkara Rao S/o.thota Rao R/o.D.No.42-3/1-61/1,Koduru Rajugari street Ramakrishnapuram, Vijayawada 6 G.Balaswamy S/o.Chinnappa R/o.Indranagar,Penamaluru (Mandal) Yenamalakuduru, Vijayawada-7 7 Mohd.Raffi S/o.Mohd.Shafi R/o.Rly,Quarter No.184/C, Satyanarayanapuram Rly Quarters, Vijayawada-11 8 M.Krupananda Kumar S/o.Joseph R/o.D.No.32-13-53/111, Sunnapu Batteela Centre Vijayawada-10 9 C.S.V.Narasimham S/o.Venkat Rao R/o.H.No.76-14-226/2, Kanakadurga Street Near Sivalayam Street, Bhavanipuram Vijayawada-12 10 GT.Meharji S/o.G.Rama Rao R/o.D.No.21-10-18/6, Srinagar 3rd lane, Opp:Beau Bell Beauty Parallel Near SJAM Rly colony, Vijayawada-11 11 Y.Appaiah, S/O.Mallaiah, APHB Colony, Bhavanipuram, Vijayawada-12. 12 CH.Chandrasekhaara Rao S/O.Ch.Srirama Rajeeva Sharma Nagar, Lambadipeta, Chittinagar, Vijayawada-9 13 P.Srinivasa Murthy S/O.Kuppuswamy, Satyanarayanapuram, Railway Colony, Vijayawada. 14 D.Ramesh Babu, S/O.Ramana, M-1, section, O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 15 B.Nageshwara Rao S/o.Koteswara Rao E-4, Section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 16 K.Ravi Kumar S/o.Dass M-5 O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 17 V.R.Babu S/o.V.Ramakrishnan E-6 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 18 B.V.V.R.Krishna Rao S/o.Kondaiah E-3 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 19 B.Anjaneyulu S/o.Papaiah E-6 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Traction, Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 20 Y.Daniel S/o.Abraham E-3 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed(TRS) South Central Railway, Vijayawada 21 G.Ravi Kumar S/o.Madhava Rao E-3 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Tracting Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 22 D.Srinivasa Rao S/o.Venkateswarlu M-5 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed Tracting Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 23 N.Reddy Naik S/o.Khande Naik E-6 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed(TRS) South Central Railway, Vijayawada 24 R.Sambasiva Rao S/o.Chakri M-5 O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed(TRS) South Central Railway, Vijayawada 25 V.Srinu Naik S/o.Somla Naik M-5 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed( Traction Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 26 Z.Srinivasa Naik S/o.Bhima Naik M-1 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco Shed( Traction Rolling Stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 27 K.Chakravarthi S/o.Venkateswarlu Memo card shed O/o.Senior Section Engineer, South Central Railway, Rajahmundry 28 B.Sekhar babu S/o.Sundara Rao M-5 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer,Electrical Loco shed Traction Loco shed, Traction Rolling stock, South Central Railway, Vijayawada 29 V.Ch.Venkateswarlu S/o.Subbanna Memo car Shed O/o.Senior Section Engineer South Central Railway, Rajahumundry 30 Prakash Babu S/o.Babu Rao E-4 section, O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco shed (TRS) South Central Railway,Vijayawada 31 D.Jayavani D/o.Raja Rao E-6 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco shed (TRS) South Central Railway,Vijayawada 32 N.Ravi Babu S/o.Paul E-7 section O/o.Senior Section Engineer, Electrical Loco shed (TRS) South Central Railway,Vijayawada .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 certiorari by calling for the order dated 27.10.2006 in OA.No.130/2006 on the ﬁle of the Hon`ble Tribunal Hyderabad Bench and declare the same as illegal,arbitrary,capricious and unconstitutional and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.T.S.VENKATARAMANA Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.K.S.MURTHY The Court made the following : O R D E R:- (per GM,J) The issue that arises for consideration in this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment dated 29.7.2008 rendered by the Apex Court in Civil Appeal Nos.6919 and 6934 to 6946 of 2005. In view of the ﬁndings recorded by the Supreme Court in the said Judgment, this Writ Petition is allowed and the impugned order dated 27.10.2006 made in O.A.No.130 of 2006 is set aside. No costs. ________________________ GHULAM MOHAMMED, J 25th August, 2008 ______________________ C.V. RAMULU, J. bcj