HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B.LOKUR AND HONOURABLE SHRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED WRIT APPEAL NO.849 OF 2011 17TH NOVEMBER 2011 BETWEEN: GOVT. OF A.P., REP. BY ITS SECRETARY, EDUCATION (CE.II-I), DEPT., SECRETARIAT, HYDERABAD AND ANOTHER .. APPELLANTS AND K.V.SUBRAHMANYAM AND OTHERS .. RESPONDENTS HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B.LOKUR AND HONOURABLE SHRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED WRIT APPEAL NO.849 OF 2011 JUDGMENT: (PER HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI Madan B.Lokur) The respondents were appointed as part time boys with C.S.R.Sarma College on 29.8.1984. They filed a writ petition before the learned single Judge with a prayer for regularization of their services from the date of their appointment. 2. The learned single Judge noted that their case should be taken into consideration from a date other than 25.11.1993 as mentioned in G.O.Ms.No.112, dated 23.7.1997 read with G.O.Ms.No.212, dated 22.4.1994. On this basis, the learned single Judge held that since the respondents had put in more than 14 years of service, they were entitled to be considered for absorption and regularization. 3. Feeling aggrieved, the appellants are now before us and they place reliance on a judgment of the Supreme Court in A MANJULA BHASHINI v. A.P.WOMEN’S COOP.FINANCE CORPN.LTD[1]. That decision read with Section 7 of The Andhra Pradesh (Regulation of Appointments to Public Services and Rationalisation of Staff Pattern and Pay Structure) Act, 1994 (for short ‘Act’) makes it very clear that an employee should have put in atleast ten years of continuous service as on the cut off date of 25.11.1993 for being considered for absorption/ regularization. 4. As mentioned above, the respondents were appointed only on 29.8.1984 and as such on the cut off date of 25.11.1993 they had not put in ten years of continuous service. 5. Under the circumstances, we set aside the order of the learned single Judge on the ground that it is contrary to the conclusions of the Supreme Court rendered in A MANJULA BHASHINI as well as the proviso to Section 7 of the Act. 6. The writ appeal is allowed and the miscellaneous applications are disposed of. ( MADAN B.LOKUR, CJ ) 17TH November, 2011. ( GHULAM MOHAMMED,J ) Nagesh Babu HONOURABLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B.LOKUR AND HONOURABLE SHRI JUSTICE GHULAM MOHAMMED WRIT APPEAL NO.849 OF 2011 JUDGMENT: (PER HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SHRI MADAN B.LOKUR) 17TH NOVEMBER, 2011. [1] (2009) 8 SCC 431