IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) FRIDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO : 23913 of 1998 Between: M.Chandra Sekhar, S/o. Mariswamy, R/o. Anantapur. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 A.P.S.E.B., Rep by its Member Secretary, Vidyut Soudha, Somajiguda, Hyderabad. 2 The Superintending Engineer, (Operations), A.P.S.E.B., Anantapur. 3 The Executive Engineer (O&M), A.P.S.E.B., PABR Dam, (HES Division) HCL Colony, Anantapur and others ..RESPONDENTS Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.A.K.JAYAPRAKASH RAO Counsel for the respondents: MR G.NAGABHUSHANA REDDY FOR MR P.R.BALARAMI REDDY The Court made the following : O R D E R: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “It is therefore prayed that this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to call for the records from the respondents and issue an appropriate Writ, Order, or direction particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring that the action of respondents in not regularizing my services and trying to terminate my services and the action of respondents in permitting to engage contract labours on the permanent and perennial nature of work as illegal, unjust, contrary to law, in violation of principles of natural justice, amounts to an act of victimization, unfair labour practice and violative of Articles 14, 16, 21 and 23 of the Constitution of India and grant all consequential benefits.” Sri A.K.Jayaprakash Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, after arguing the case for sometime, sought for leave of this Court to permit the petitioner to raise the issue of unfair labour practice on the part of the respondents, in engaging the petitioner as a Driver of their own vehicle on contract basis, before the appropriate Court under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. This request of the learned counsel is accepted and the writ petition is disposed of, without going into the merits of the case, with liberty in terms of the prayer made. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J Dated 21st November, 2008 vrn