THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.34374 of 1997 Dated 27-06-2007 Between: M.Venugopal. ..... PETITIONER AND The Depot Manager, APSRTC, Utnoor Depot, Adilabad District. .....RESPONDENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.34374 of 1997 O R D E R: Heard Sri G.Vidya Sagar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri V.S.K.Rama Rao, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Sri R.Manmadha Reddy, learned standing counsel for the respondent-Corporation. The proceedings of the respondent-Corporation dated 10-11- 1997 in keeping the petitioner, the driver, under put off duty pending enquiry into the driving licence at the time of his appointment, is impugned in this writ petition. Sri G.Vidya Sagar, learned counsel for the petitioner, would place before this Court an order passed in W.P.Nos.34281 of 1997 and batch, dated 15-03-1997, wherein the learned Single Judge following the Division Bench judgments in Regional Manager, APSRTC, Nellore v. S.K.Ghulam Rasool[1] and W.A.No.218 of 1993, held that the service Regulations of the APSRSTC did not provide for any of its employees either permanent or temporarily working on daily wages to be placed on put off duty. Following the two Division Bench judgments, the learned Single declared the impugned proceedings as illegal. Since the order impugned in this writ petition is similar to the orders impugned in the aforesaid writ petitions and writ appeals, the impugned order dated 10-11-1997 is illegal and is accordingly quashed. The Writ Petition is accordingly allowed. However, in the circumstances, without costs. ____________ 27-06-2007 usd [1] 2003(3) ALT 3376