IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 10720 of 2004 Between: 1 B.Sambasiva Rao s/o Late Sri B.BL. Narasimha Rao offiice of Sub-Divisional Engineer, MDE/PP, EWSD,. ANR, Vijayawada Resident of Vijayawada 2 N.V.Chalapati Rao S/o Sri Krishna Murthy Sub-Divisional Engineer, Power Plant E10B, Tax Building , Vijayawada, resident of Vijayawada 3 N.Lakshmi Narayana S/o Sri Madhava Rao Divisional Engineer, Telecom, Trans,& Mtce. BSNL Building, Vijayawada resident of Vijayawada 4 K.Vanajakshi D/o Sri V.VKrishna Rao Sub-Divisional Engineer, Power Plant , E10B, Tax Building , vijayawada Resident of Vjayawada 5 J.Chandra Mohan s/o Sri J.Musalaiah Divisional Engineer, Telecom Installation , Ashok Nagar , Guntur Resident of Guntur 6 C.Siva Prasad, S/o Sri C.Rama Rao Sub-Divisional Engineer, AIT(SW) T &D Circle, Guntur resident of Guntur 7 P.Venkateswarlu S/o Sri P.Lakshmaiah Sub-Divisional Engineer, OFC Velampet Exchange, Visakhapatnam Resident of Visakhapatnam 8 K.Tirumala Devi D/o Sri K.Garikayya General Manager, Telecom District Daba Gardents Exchange , Visakhapatnam Resident of Visakhapatnam 9 N.Dasu Babu S/o Sri N.Shouri Sub-Divisional Engineer(KP) Krilampudi RLU Exchange, Visakhapatnam resident of visakhapatnam 10 S.Ratnakar Rao S/o Sri Neelakantam Sub-Divisional Engineer, Trans Mtce Vijayanagaram Resident of Vijayanagaram 11 N.Sita Rama Babu S/o Late Sri Sree Ramulu Sub-Divisional Engineer, Cell one , MSC, Tax Building , Labbipet, Vijayawada resident of vijayawada 12 K.V.Ramani D/o Sri RRK. Paramahamsa Sub-Divisoinal Engineer(Internal) RSU, S.NPuram Vijayawada resident of vijayawada 13 K.V.Pattabi Ramaiah S/o Sri Krishnaiah Divisional Engineer, Microwave Project vijayawada resident of Vijayawada 14 S.Venkateswara Rao s/o Sri Butchanna Sub-Divisional Engineer, P II CDOT MBM Exchage, Bhimavaram Resident of Bhimavaram 15 D.VSS Subrahmanyam S/o Sri Venkateswarlu sub-Divisional Engineer, Trans, Mtce, Sanchar Bhawan, Rajahmundry resident of Rajahmundry. 16 Garevalli Rajeswara Rao S/o Sri Krishna Murthy M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Srikakulam District resident of Plot No.1A Opp. Sai ITI, Arasavalli Raod, Srikakulam Distict 17 Mojjada Narayana Rao S/o Sri Seeta Ram M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Srikakulam district resident of Maha Lakshmi Nagar Colony behind Govt. Girls High School ,Srikakulam district 18 Yenda Malleswara rao S/o Sri Sree Hari M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Srikakulam district resident of Plot No. 66 Indira Nagar Colony, Srikakulam District 19 Seepana Trinadhulu S/o Sri Sree Hari M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Srikakulam district resident of Lakshmi Nagar Colony Maruthi Nagar, Narsannapeta, Srikakulam District 20 Pydesetty Jagandham S/o Late Sri DhaliSetty M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Vizianagaram District resident Cheepurupalli, Vizianagaram District 21 Y.Symala Rao S/o Late Sri Appanna M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Vizianagaram District resident of Jonnaguddi Near Balaji Nagar, Vizianagaram District 22 Segilipalli Narayana Rao S/o Sri Kristamma M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Srikakulam District resident of PNColony Kotabommali, Srikakulam District 23 M.Jagadeeswari W/o Sri Srinivasa Rao M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Vizianagaram District resident of Jonnaguddi Near Balaji Nagar, Vizianagaram District 24 B.Nageswar Rao S/o Sri Papaiah Sub-Divisional Engineer, E-10B, Telephone Exchange, chiralal resident of 1-45- 16(1), Prakash Nagar, III Ward, Chirala-523 155 25 V.Radha mim S/o V.Murigum SDEE, MDF, Erragaddun Telephone Exchage, Hyd 26 Sowbhagyam D/o Y.S.Ratnam Hyderabad ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Union of India rep. by its Secretary to Government Department of Telecommunications, Door Sanchar Bhawan New Delhi-1100 01 2 The Director General M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigams Limited Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi 3 The Chief General Manager M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Andhra Pradesh Circle, Abids, Hyderabad .....RESPONDENT(S) 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 direct the respondent to consider and grant the relaxed standard in the qualifying marks for the examination of Junior Telecom Officers held on 6th May, 2000 against 35% quota on the same lines as was granted vide Letter No.12-15/2002-DE dt. 10th March , 2003 by M/s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Headquarters in respect of Junior Telecom Officer(15% quota Vacanies ) Examinations held during the years 1999 and 2000 with all cosequential benefits such as promotion; seniority, arrears of pay and allowances etc. to the posts of Jurnior Telecom Officers lying vacant in the interest of justice. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.VEMURIVENKATESWARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.A.RAJASHEKAR REDDY (ASST SOLICITOR GEN) The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: The learned counsel for respondents states that the issue that arises for consideration in this writ petition is squarely covered by the judgment rendered by this Court in W.P.No.12614 of 2004 dated 2.12.2004 and therefore, this writ petition is also liable to be dismissed in terms of the said judgment. In view of the same, following the judgment rendered in W.P.No.12614 of 2004 dated 2.12.2004, this writ petition is dismissed in terms of the said judgment. No order as to costs. ____________ C.V.RAMULU, J Date: 11.4.2008 DA THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU W.P.No.10720 of 2004 11.4.2008