THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.23173 OF 2008 DATED 13th SEPTEMBER, 2010 BETWEEN: B.Gangaram … Petitioner A n d APSRTC, rep. by its Managing Director, Musheerabad, Hyderabad, and another. …Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.23173 OF 2008 O R D E R The petitioner, a Conductor in the service of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC), was removed from service on 17.01.2002. By Award dated 17.08.2007 in I.D.No.54 of 2005, the Labour Court-II, Hyderabad, directed his reinstatement in service without back wages and without continuity of service. He was thereupon reinstated in service. His grievance presently is that upon such reinstatement he was paid the basic pay applicable to a newly recruited Conductor instead of putting him in the corresponding basic drawn by him as on the date of his removal. He therefore seeks a direction to the APSRTC to fix his basic pay duly taking into consideration the basic pay which he was drawing as on the date of his removal from service and to pay him the consequential arrears. Sri V.Narsimha Goud, learned counsel for the petitioner, states that the matter is squarely covered by the order dated 24.06.1998 passed by this Court in W.P.No.29422 of 1997. A copy of the said order is placed before me and demonstrates that the facts obtaining therein were similar to those in the case on hand. In that case also the Labour Court directed reinstatement of the petitioner therein denying him back wages and also continuity of service. The petitioner therein was reinstated giving him the pay scale applicable to a new recruitee. This Court, by the aforestated order, held that on reinstatement the petitioner therein was entitled to be paid the same wages as he was drawing as on the date of his removal from service and disposed of the writ petition directing the respondent APSRTC to fix his scale at the same rate that he was drawing on the date of his removal. The arrears payable to him were directed to be paid within a time frame. The learned Standing Counsel for the APSRTC fairly concedes that the dispute in the present writ petition is squarely covered by the aforestated adjudication. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of the order in W.P.No.29422 of 1997 holding that the petitioner herein is entitled to be reinstated in service on the same scale of pay that he was drawing as on the date he was suspended from service and thereafter removed. The APSRTC shall accordingly re-fix the petitioner’s pay in terms of the aforestated direction and pay him the arrears within three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In the circumstances of the case, there shall be no order as to costs. -------------------------- SANJAY KUMAR,J 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2010 PGS/VGSR THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.23173 OF 2008 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2010