THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.19420 OF 2007 DATED: 13-09-2007 Between: Shaik Jeelan and others .. Petitioners and The Central Power Distribution Company of A.P. Limited, rep. by its Chairman & Managing Director, Singareni Bhavan, Redhills, Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.19420 OF 2007 ORDER: This writ petition is filed seeking a mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not appointing the petitioners to the post of Contract Junior Lineman, as arbitrary and illegal; and consequently to direct the respondents to appoint the petitioners as Contract Junior Linemen. According to the petitioners, they are all working as Contract Labour with the respondent Company. While so, the respondent Company issued a notification on 10.07.2006 calling for applications from the eligible candidates for recruitment to the post of Contract Junior Lineman. The petitioners, having applied for the same, attended the interviews held on 02.06.007 and 04.06.2007. The grievance of the petitioners is that though they fared well in the said interviews and have been selected by the Selection Committee constituted for the purpose, they have not been issued appointment orders while similarly placed persons have already been issued appointment orders. In view of the above, without expressing any opinion on merits, the respondents are directed to consider appointment of the petitioners to the post of Contract Junior Lineman, in pursuance of the interviews held on 02.06.2007 and 04.06.2007, if the petitioners succeeded in the said interviews and if they are otherwise eligible, and pass appropriate orders, as per law, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, and communicate the same to the petitioners. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. ______________ C.V. RAMULU, J 13th September, 2007. IBL