THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION No. 20925 of 2011 ORDER : The petitioner, a Driver in the service of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC), was removed from service on 13.08.2007. By Award dated 28.06.2010 in Industrial Dispute No. 29 of 2008, the Labour Court-III, Hyderabad, directed his reinstatement in service without back wages and without continuity of service. He was thereupon reinstated in service. His grievance presently is that upon such reinstatement he was paid the basic pay applicable to a newly recruited Driver instead of putting him in the corresponding basic drawn by him as on the date of his removal. Therefore, he seeks a direction to the respondent corporation to fix his basic pay duly taking into consideration the basic pay which he was drawing as on the date of his removal from service and to pay him the consequential arrears. Sri V.Narasimha Goud, learned counsel for the petitioner states that the matter is squarely covered by the order dated 24.06.1998 passed by this Court in Writ Petition No.29422 of 1997. A perusal of copy of the order in the said Writ Petition would go to show that the facts obtaining therein are similar to those in the case on hand. In that case also, Labour Court directed reinstatement of the petitioner therein denying him back wages and also continuity of service. The petitioner therein was reinstated giving him the pay scale applicable to a new recruitee. This Court, by the aforestated order, held that on reinstatement the petitioner therein was entitled to be paid the same wages as he was drawing as on the date of his removal from service and disposed of the Writ Petition directing the respondent corporation to fix his basic at the same rate that he was drawing on the date of his removal. The learned standing counsel for the respondent corporation fairly concedes that the dispute in the present Writ Petition is squarely covered by the aforestated adjudication. The Writ Petition is, accordingly, disposed of, holding that the petitioner herein is entitled to be reinstated in service on the same scale of pay that he was drawing as on the date he was suspended from service and thereafter removed. No costs. --------------------- (K.C.Bhanu, J.) 26.07.2011 DRK THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION No. 20925 of 2011 26.07.2011