HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4734 OF 2006. DATED 28TH OCTOBER, 2010. BETWEEN K.Rama Ramesh Babu … Petitioner and The Superintendent Engineer, Operation circle, APEPDC Ltd., Visakhapatnam and ors ….Respondents. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA WRIT PETITION No. 4734 OF 2006. ORDER: This Writ Petition has been ﬁled challenging the proceedings of the ﬁrst respondent in Lr.No.SE/O/VSP/AD/AS/D.No.391/06, dated 20.02.2006, rejecting the claim of the petitioner for appointment as L.D.C. on the ground that the petitioner was not on the rolls of the contractor as on 18.5.1987. It is the case of the petitioner that he was on the rolls of the contractor from 1.5.1995 to 31.12.1997 and therefore he is entitled to be considered for appointment to the post of L.D.C. It is his further case that as per the Certiﬁcate dated 1.1.1998 issued by the Assistant Divisional engineer, Construction and Operation, Paderu, he worked as a contract labour from 1.5.1985 to 31.12.1997 and therefore, as per the said certiﬁcate, he is entitled to be considered for appointment to the post of L.D.C. Counter aﬃdavit has been ﬁled on behalf of the respondents, whereunder, it is stated as follows: “ Duly following the above instructions, candidates are called for interview on 30.10.2003 and the scrutiny committee have veriﬁed the documents like service certiﬁcate, educational qualiﬁcations, Caste certiﬁcate produced by the candidates. On veriﬁcation of the service certiﬁcates produced by the petitioner with reference to the agreements and M. Books which are the statutory records, the following points are observed by the scrutiny committee. The contractor stated to have been undertaken the works under agreement No. 15/95-96, 17/95-96 and 20/95-96. As per the records the work under LS agreement No.15/95-96 was check measured by Asst. Divl. Engineer/C&O Division/Araku on 17.03.1996 and the works under LA Agreement No.20/95-96 were ﬁnally check measured on 27.12.1995. Hence, the works have been completed before 31.3.1996 under the above agreement. Hence the petitioner in the above writ petition has been working under he contractor as per the certiﬁcate is not correct and is not tenable as the petitioner was not on the rolls as on 18.5.1997 as much as the works under agreement have been completed before 17.03.1996. Further, it is to be stated that simple signing of certiﬁcate by the section oﬃcer without verifying the basic records of M.Book and agreement cannot be treated as valid for conﬁrming the eligibility of petitioner. Hence, the contention of the petitioner cannot be acceptable” On a perusal of the stand of the respondents, stated supra, it is to be seen that the petitioner was on the rolls as on 18.05.1987 and hence, he is not entitled to be considered for appointment to the post of L.D.C. In view of the above, I do not see any merit in the Writ Petition and the same is accordingly liable to be dismissed. The Writ Petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ----------------------------------------------------- JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA Dated 28th October, 2010. Msnr