IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE Dr. JUSTICE G.YETHIRAJULU WRIT PETITION No. 18436 of 2004 Between: 1 N. Ramakrishna, S/o. subramanyam, aged 28 years, R/o. Dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad. 2 V.S. Krishna Chary, S/o. V.B. Chary, aged 26 years, R/o. Shaikpet, Hyderabad. 3 K. Vijay Kumar, S/o. Radhakrishna, aged 27 years, R/o. 5-9-531, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad. ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The Managing director, State Bank of Hyderabad, Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad. 2 The Deputy General Manager, State Bank of Hyderabad, Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad. 3 The Assistant General Manager, State Bank of Hyderabad, Treasury Branch, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to issue a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not regularizing the services of the petitioners is illegal, arbitrary and violative of the Articles 14 & 16 of the Constitution of India, and consequently direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioners immediately after the day of completion of the 240 days of their engagement, Otherwise they will be put to irreparable loss and hardship. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.R.YOGENDER SINGH Counsel for the Respondents: NONE APPEARED The Court at the stage of admission made the following: ORDER: The petitioners are contending that they have been working as casual employees in the respondent Bank since 1993, 1996 and 1997 respectively. Their grievance is that though there are vacancies, the respondent Bank is not taking any steps to regularize their services in pursuance of the order of the 2nd respondent dated 28.10.2000. The petitioners further submit that they submitted a representation on 24.02.2004 to the 1st respondent, but no orders have been passed. 2. In the light of the above submissions made by the petitioners, the respondents 1 and 2 are directed to pass appropriate orders on the representation of the petitioners dated 24.02.2004 regarding their request for absorption as regular employees, within 2 (two) months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. 3. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. No costs. dsr ASSISTANT REGISTRAR To: 1. The Managing Director, State Bank of Hyderabad, Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad 2. The Deputy General Manager, State Bank of Hyderabad, Head Office, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad 3. The Assistant General Manager, State Bank of Hyderabad, Treasury Branch, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad, 4. Two CD copies.