IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) WEDNESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R.SUBHASH REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 4949 of 1999 Between: Veerla Narasimha Srinivasa Rao, S/o Late Bhaskara Rao, R/o Door No.38-5-4, Muralinagar, Visakhapatnam. ..... PETITIONER AND Visakhapatnam Port Trust, represented by its Chairman Visakhapatnam. .....RESPONDENT Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue any writ, order or direction particularly one in the nature of MANDAMUS declaring the action of the respondent Port Trust in notifying the vacant posts of Overseers in the Civil Engineering Department in the respondent organisation that were available by June, 1997 without absorbing the available eligible candidates holding Master Identity Cards is contrary to the Trust Board Resolutions, as highly arbitrary, illegal and direct the respondent to appoint petitioner to the post of Overseers or any other suitable post immediately under the compassionate grounds giving priority both for the purpose of appointment and also seniority above any outsider direct recruitee that may be selected consequent to the written examinations held for the posts on 29-11-1998 and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:DR.P.B.VIJAY KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent: MR.K.SRINIVASA MURTHY The Court made the following : O R D E R: In this writ petition, the petitioner seeks a direction by way of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondent in notifying the vacancies in the post of Overseers in Civil Engineering Department without absorbing the available eligible candidates as illegal and arbitrary and to direct the respondent to appoint him to the post of Overseer or any other suitable post under compassionate grounds. Though no counter-affidavit is filed, Sri E.V.Suresh Kumar, learned counsel representing Sri K.Srinivasa Murthy, learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondent, submits that the petitioner was already appointed as Overseer on 19-11-2005. In view of the said appointment, no cause survives in this writ petition for adjudication. Recording the submission made by the learned counsel, the writ petition is closed. No costs. ____________________ R.SUBHASH REDDY,J Dated 11th June, 2008 vrn ..... REGISTRAR // TRUE COPY // SECTION OFFICER To 1. Visakhapatnam Port Trust, represented by its Chairman Visakhapatnam. 2. 2CD copies Form-NIC-OGS/WP{SAM}