THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 27354 and 27532 OF 1996 DATE: 24-1-2007 W.P.No.27354 of 1996 P.Krupanandam … Petitioner And 1. Govt. of A.P. Panchayat Raj Dept Rural Development Dept rep. By its Prl. Secretary, Hyderabad and 4 others .. Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 27354 and 27532 OF 1996 COMMON ORDER: Both Sri C.Raghu and Sri C.M.R.Velu, learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the subject matter of these two writ petitions is covered by a Division Bench judgment of this Court in W.P.26465 of 1996 and batch dated 2.7.2002 (K.Ravindranath v. Government of A.P.[1])wherein the Division Bench, while upholding the constitutional validity of Sections 2 and 3 of the A.P. Prohibition of Absorption of Employees of State Government Public Sector Undertakings into Public Service Act 1997 (Act 14 of 1997), dismissed the writ petition. The Division Bench, while dismissing the writ petition, expressed its hope and trust that the judgment would not come in the way of the State Government to pursue social welfare objectives and in ﬁnding some solution to the problem of unemployment caused to the erstwhile employees of M/s Andhra Pradesh Scooters Limited by framing some special measure or rehabilitation scheme and observed that if its hope was translated into reality, the Court would be happy. These writ petitions are also disposed of in accordance with and in terms of the aforementioned Division Bench judgment of this Court. No order as costs. ____________ 24-1-2007 asp [1] 2002(4) ALD 609(DB)