IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 19693 of 2006 DATED: 23.4.2007 Between: G.E.S. Sanjeeva Raju petitioner And The A.P. Residential Educational Institutional Society Rep by its Secretary, Gaganvihar, III Floor, nampally, Hyderabad & another Respondents THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO. 19693 OF 2006 ORAL ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking the following relief; “…declaring the action of the 1st respondent in taking steps for filing up of the vacancy of Junior Lecturer in English in A.P. Residential Junior Colleges in Zone IV as per employment notification 2006-07 issued Rc No. 4102/A1-2/2005 dated 4.5.2006 without promoting the Post Graduate Teachers to the post of Junior Lecturers on regular basis as illegal, irregular………..” The petitioner claims that he was initially appointed as Post Graduate Teacher in English vide proceedings dated 31.5.1990 and later on vide proceedings dated 13.8.1990 transferred and posted in the vacancy of Lecturer in English in A.P. Residential Junior College, Chintapalli and after serving at various places, presently is working as Junior Lecturer in the second respondent college for the last about nine years. While so, the first respondent issued a notification dated 4.5.2002 which was published in the daily news papers on 9.5.2006 inviting applications from the eligible candidates for appointment as Junior Lecturers on contract basis. In the said notification in zone IV one vacancy of Junior Lecturer-English was also notified. The petitioner alleges there is no necessity to notify the said vacancy, inasmuch as he is working in the said vacancy and is eligible for absorption . Hence, the present writ petition. When the matter is taken up, learned standing counsel for respondent society submitted that the subject matter of this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment of this Court in CHITTI SIMHACHALAM NAIDU Vs. BOARD OF GOVERNORS, ANDHRA PRADESH RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS SOCIETY, SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD[1]. Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for respondent society. I n Chitti Simhachalam Naidu’s case, this Court rejected similar claim for regularization of the Post Graduate Teachers as Junior Lecturers, and observed that the order under which they were appointed as Junior Lecturers do not confer any right upon the petitioners to be appointed to the said post, nor were they entitled to be appointed as such in accordance with any Rules. Following the said decision, a similar matter in W.P.No.4862 of 2007 was dismissed by this Court by order dated 9.3.2007. In the circumstances, no direction can be given to the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioner as Junior Lecturer and following the judgment of this Court in Chitti Simhachalam Naidu’s case, this writ petition is dismissed. No costs. ____________ N.V.RAMANA,J DATE: 9.3.2007 TVK THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA WRIT PETITION NO : 19693 of 2006 DATED: 23.4.2007 [1] 1999 (6) ALT 308