THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.13387 of 2010 Dated: 28-06-2010 Between: M.Chinna Konda Reddy & others. …Petitioners AND The Indian Tobacco Company, Paper Boards & Specialty Paper Division, Rep. by its Chief Executive Officer, Sarapaka, Khammam & Another. Respondents. This Court made the following: HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.NO. 13387 OF 2010 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not absorbing the petitioners in regular service as arbitrary and illegal and consequently to direct the respondent- management to regularize/absorb the services of the petitioners in the posts in which they are presently working etc. There is no necessity of going into all the details. The very writ petition is not maintainable for the reason that the respondent-Indian Tobacco Company is not a State within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution of India. This proposition of law is not disputed by the learned counsel for the petitioner. Therefore, this writ petition is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. -------------------- C.V.RAMULU,J JUNE 28, 2010 Tsr