IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY SIXTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.18533 of 1999 Between: 1 G.V.S.K.Sarma S/o. Markendeyulu Chennupalli Village Ballikurva Mandal Prakasam District and six others. ..... Petitioners AND 1 The Member/Director Transco A.P, Vidyut Soudha Khairtabad Hyderabad and another. .....Respondents Counsel for the Petitioners: MS.R.ANNAPURNA Counsel for the Respondents: P.R.BALARAMI REDDY(SC FOR AP TRANSCO) The Court made the following : ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a writ of mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in not absorbing the petitioners in the posts of Junior Linemen, as illegal and arbitrary. The petitioners also sought for direction to the respondents to absorb them in any operation circle/zone within the State as Junior Lineman within the existing 50% vacancies as on 18.05.1997 pursuant to B.P.Ms.No.36 dated 18.05.1997. The petitioners claim to be Ex-Village Electricity Workers and they filed W.P.No.18596 of 1998 in this Court seeking appointment in AP TRANSCO/APSEB on regular basis and this Court directed the respondents to consider their cases in terms of B.P.Ms.No.36 dated 18.05.1997. Accordingly, respondent No.2 considered the petitioners’ claim for absorption and he rejected their cases on the ground that their turn has not come up within the quota of 50% earmarked in B.P.Ms.No.36 dated 18.05.1997. In the counter-affidavit filed by the respondents, they justified the impugned order. At the hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioners is not present to point out any illegality in the order impugned in this writ petition. I do not, therefore, find any justification to interfere with the impugned order. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Date: 26.12.2008 va