IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE THIRTIETH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND NINE PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 13334 of 2006 Between: 1 N.V.V Bhaskar S/o Late Sri NL Narayana R/o 49-48-25/1, Santhipuram, Visakhapatnam-16 2 S. Murali S/o Late Sri Narasimha Murthy O/o GMTD, Visakhapatnam R/o 31-35-17, Vivekanada Colony Visakhapatnam 3 U. Usha Rani W/o Sri U.V. Satyanaryana Raju r/o 30-8-41, DI Floor, Bhanu Stret, Daba Gardens, Visakhapatnam-20 4 I Brunda Rani W/o Sri I M Prakash Rao III Floor, Marripalem, Visakhapatnam 5 D. Appa Raqo S/o Late Sri bangaraiah O/o GMTD, Visakhapatnam R/o LIG-17, D. No. 55-21-8, HB Calony, Back lane of HB Colony Post Office, Visakhapatnam-22 6 K.V.D Swami S/o Sri Venkata Reddi, Telecom Centre, Narsipatnam 531116 R/o Makavarapalem-531113, Visakhapatnam District 7 K. Ganapathi Rao S/o Sri Krishna Murthy, R/o D5, Telecom quarters, Minidi, Visakhapatnam-12 8 G. Basava Raju S/o Late sri G. Mallikarjuna Rao O/o SDOT Tuni R/o D. No. 4-16, Yerrathammayya Streete, Payakaraopeta 9 D. Narayana Rao S/o Late Sri D. Kanna Rao Bhawan, Vijayanagaram R/o Plot NO. 59, Lakshmi Ganapathi Colony, Pool Bagh Road, Vijayanaragam 10 Tompala Eswara Rao S/o Late Sri T. Rajappadu Vijayanagaram R/o LIG B 120, Phase-II, VIDA Colony Contonment, Vijayanagaram ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Union of India rep by the Secretary to Government Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi 2 M/s. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited rep by Chairman-cum- Managing Director, Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi 3 The Chief General Manager, Telecommunications, M/s. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Andhra Pradesh Circle, Hyderabad 4 The Assistant General Manager, O/o The Chief General Manager, Telecommunications, M/s. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Andhra Pradesh Circle, Hyderabad .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner: MR.VEMURIVENKATESWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondents: MR.Y.Ravindra, SC FOR B.S.N.L. The Court made the following : O R D E R: This Writ Petition pertains to a service dispute raised by M/s.Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. At the hearing, Sri Vemuri Venkateswar Rao, learned Counsel for the petitioners, submitted that recently the Government of India issued notification under Section 1(5) of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, vesting jurisdiction to decide service disputes of the said Corporation in the respective Central Administrative Tribunals. This submission of the learned Counsel for the petitioners is not disputed by the respondents. The learned Counsel further submitted that in pursuance of his letter dated 19-01-2009 addressed to the Registry, atleast seven Writ Petitions have been transferred. In view of the same, the Registry is directed to transfer this Writ Petition to the file of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad. _____________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 30th April, 2009 LUR