THE HON'BLE MS JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION NO : 20258 of 2009 Dated: 11.11.2009 Between: P. Sattaiah ..... PETITIONER AND 1. The Regional Manager, APSRTC, Mahaboobnagar Region, at Mahaboobnagar, A.P., and another. ...RESPONDENTS THE HON'BLE Ms. JUSTICE G.ROHINI WRIT PETITION No.20258 of 2009 ORDER: This writ petition is filed with the following prayer: “… … … that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a writ or order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring that the action of the respondents in not paying the gratuity amount to the petitioner for his out of employment period (i.e., from 20.09.2002 to 03.02.2006) in concerned with his removal as illegal, bad, arbitrary and contrary to the judgments of this Hon’ble Court and consequently direct the respondents to pay the gratuity for the said period and pass such other order or orders.” I have heard the learned counsel for both the parties. The learned counsel for the petitioner at the outset, relied upon a decision of this Court in M.Rama Rao v. Assistant Traffic Manager, APSRTC, Central Bus Station, Hyderabad and another[1][1] and submitted that having regard to the ratio laid down in the said decision, the impugned action of the respondents cannot be justified. The petitioner therein was also similarly situated and this Court, after hearing both the parties, disposed of the writ petition with a direction to the Corporation to compute the gratuity payable to the petitioner therein taking into consideration out of employment period into account and after so computing to pay the balance of gratuity to the petitioner therein. Since admittedly, the petitioner herein is also similarly situated, following the above order, the Writ Petition is disposed of with a direction to the respondents to compute the gratuity and other benefits payable to the petitioner taking into consideration the service of the petitioner between 20.09.2002 and 03.02.2006 and pay the amounts within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No costs. ____________ G.Rohini , j. Date: 11.11.2009 gbs [1]1998(2)ALT 534