THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NOs. 34323, 33533, 33568 and 33605 OF 1998 WRIT PETITION NOs. 34323 OF 1998: Date: 14.02.2008 Between: APSRTC, Staff and Workers Federation, Hyderabad and 31 others. … Petitioners and The Managing Director, APASRTC, Musheerabad, Hyderabad. … Respondents. THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NOs. 34323, 33533, 33568 and 33605 OF 1998 COMMON ORDER: The relief sought for in these four writ petitions is for a direction to the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners, (drivers and conductors of APSRTC), from the date of their initial appointment with all consequential benefits, in the light of the Division Bench judgment of this Court in The Divisional Manager, APSRTC Vs. B. Saibaba[1]. The said order of the Division Bench was, in fact, considered by the Supreme Court in Divisional Manager, APSRTC. Vs. P. Lakshmoji Rao[2] and the Supreme Court, while holding that these employees had no legal right to get the status of regular employees right from their initial appointment on daily- wages, and that the respective dates of regulation assigned to them could not be faulted, however, observed that if any Conductors, juniors to the petitioners in the relevant seniority list of the concerned Division/Region, had got the benefit of seniority and regularization, the petitioners who were seniors to them should also be given the same benefit. This writ petition is disposed of in terms of the judgment of the Supreme Court in P. Lakshmoji Rao2 and there shall be a direction to the respondents to consider the case of the petitioners for being conferred the benefit of seniority if any driver/conductor, junior to them in the relevant seniority list had got the benefit of seniority and regularization prior to them. The writ petitions are disposed of accordingly. No costs. _______________________________ Date: 14.02.2008 RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J MRKR [1] W.A. No. 705 of 1995 dated 24.07.1995 [2] 2004(3) ALD 1 (SC)