IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE B.PRAKASH RAO AND THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO. 4445 OF 1998 Dated: 11th July, 2006 Between: N.V. Sridhar Kumar and others Petitioners AND The Union of India, Rep. by its Cabinet Secretary, New Delhi and others Respondents ORDER: (Per the Hon’ble Sri Justice Ramesh Ranganathan) The relief sought for in this writ petition is to absorb the services of the petitioners with the Government or in the Commissionarate of Technical Education. Since the petitioners seek absorption in the Government Services, in view of the law laid down by the Supreme Court in L.Chandra Kumar Vs. Union of India ([1]), they have to invoke the jurisdiction of the Tribunal in the first instance before invoking the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution. Therefore, the writ petition is dismissed, leaving it open to the petitioners to approach the Tribunal, in the first instance, if they so choose, for the redressal of their grievance. No order as to costs. __________________ B.PRAKASH RAO, J. __________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J. Date 11-7-2006 MAS [1] AIR 1997 SC 1125