IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT: THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.15242 OF 1997 Between: 1. D. Venkata Ramana, S/o. Venkatramaiah Chetty, age: 35 years, Occ: Conductor, 14-130/2, Radha Krishna Road, Kuppam, Chittoor District. 2. K.M. Jagadesh, S/o. Munaswami Pillai, age: 38 years, Occ: Conductor, R/o Chittoor Town. 3. C. Vinod Babu, S/o. Chengalaraya Pillai, age: 35 years, Conductor, R/o. Chitrapara V & PO., Chittoor. 4. R. Venkataiah Gowdu, S/o. Ramappa Gowd, age 38 years, Occ: Conductor, R/o. Vengamvaripalli, Chittoor District. 5. E.C.R. Naidu, S/o. Chengama Naidu, age: 44 years, Occ: Conductor, Thellagandha Valasa, Chittoor District. 6. G. Rama Murthy Naidu, S/o. Sudarshan Naidu. age: 43 years, Occ: Condcutor, Gandlapalli Kavikapuram, Chittoor District. 7. K.M. Sreehari, S/o. K.V.M. Rathnam, age: 42 years, Occ: Conductor, R/o.Chittoor. 8. A. Vinayakam, S/o. Lakshmana Mudali. age: 41 years, Occ: Conductor, R/o.Chittoor. 9. G. Munswamy, S/o. G. Munaswamy. age: 42 years, Occ: Conductor, R/o. Kuppam, Chittoor District. 10. D. Doraiswamy, S/o. Ramaiah. age: 40 years, Occ: Driver, R/o. Kuppam. 11 V.N. Anjaneyulu, S/o. Narayana Swamy, age: 40 years, Occ: Driver, R/o. Kuppam, Chittoor District. 12. K. Gajendvan, S/o. Narayana Swamy, age: 39 years, Occ: Driver, R/o. Santhapet, Chittoor District. 13. K.N.B. Mani, S/o. Narayana Pillai, age: 44 years, Occ: Driver, R/o. Bangarupaluam, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1. The Vice Chairman & Manging Director, A.P.S.R.T.C., Musheerabad, Hyderabad. 2. The Regional Manager, A.P.S.R.T.C., Chittoor Region, Chittoor. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue an order, direction or writ more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners from the date of their original appointment shown in the annexure to the writ petition with consequential benefits from the date of regularisation including difference of salary. Counsel for the Petitioners: Mr. G. VIDYASAGAR Counsel for the Respondents: Mr. P. VINAYAKA SWAMY, S.C. for A.P.S.R.T.C. The Court made the following : ORDER: In this writ petition, petitioners seek regularization of their services from the date of their original appointment and for consequential benefits from the date of regularization including difference in salary etc. Sri G. Vidyasagar, learned counsel for the petitioners, and Sri P. Vinayaka Swamy, learned Standing Counsel for the respondents-A.P.S.R.T.C., submit that the subject matter of this writ petition is covered by the judgment in Divisional Manager, A.P. SRTC v. P. Lakshmoji Rao, wherein the Division Bench of this Court, while holding that the respondent employees had failed to establish their legal right to get the status of regular employees right from the date of their initial appointment on daily-wage basis and that the respective dates of regularization assigned to them could not be legally faulted, held that ‘if any of the conductors, junior to the respondents in the relevant seniority list of the division/region concerned, have got the benefit of seniority and regularization OR are entitled to get the same by virtue of the judgments that have become final, then the respondents/employees who are seniors to them, shall be given the same benefit on the same principle.’ Following the said judgment, this Writ Petition is also disposed of with the same directions and observations made therein. No order as to costs. ______________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date:08-07-2005. PV To 1. The Vice Chairman & Manging Director., A.P.S.R.T.C., Musheerabad, Hyderabad. 2. The Regional Manager, A.P.S.R.T.C., Chittoor Region, Chittoor. 3. Two C.D. copies.