HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No. 9877, 9878, 12153, 12154, 12155 AND 12156 OF 2006 Wednesday, the Twenty Fourth day of November, Two Thousand and Ten Between Dr. K.Lakshmi Janakamma Petitioner AND Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, Rep. By its Registrar Respondents COMMON ORDER: This batch of writ petitions is filed by the A.P. Beverages Corporation Limited challenging the awards dated 31.12.2005 passed by the Industrial Tribunal-cum- Labour Court, Anantapur, in I.D. Nos. 57, 58, 60, 61, 59 and 62 of 1996 respectively. The said I.Ds. were filed by the workmen of the petitioner company aggrieved by their removal from service by orders dated 12.3.1996. By the said awards, the Labour Court directed the petitioner company to reinstate the petitioners in the I.Ds. in service along with continuity of service, attendant benefits and 80% of the back wages. It is now stated by the learned counsel appearing for both the parties that the matter has been settled amicably whereby the workmen, arrayed as respondent No.2 in each of these cases, agreed to forego the attendant benefits and 80% back wages awarded to them by the Labour Court. The counsel also filed Joint Memos to that effect duly signed by the parties and their respective counsel. In that view of the matter, the awards of the Labour Court dated 31.12.2005 in I.D.Nos. 57, 58, 60, 61, 59 and 62 of 1996 shall stand modified to the extent of setting aside the directions to pay 80% back wages and to extend attendant benefits to the workmen. The awards shall stand confirmed in so far as the directions to reinstate them along with continuity of service are concerned. The writ petitions are allowed in part to the extent indicated above. As per the settlement between the parties, the petitioner company shall reinstate the second respondent-workmen within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In the circumstances of the case, there shall be no order as to costs. __________________ Justice Sanjay Kumar November 24, 2010 MAS