IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) THURSDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE J.CHELAMESWAR and THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE GODA RAGHURAM WRIT PETITION NO : 21922 of 2000 Between: 1 N.Shankaraiah S/o. Balaiah in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 2 D.Krishna S/o. Bikshapathi in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 3 B.Bikshapathi S/o. Narayana in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 4 Y.Ravi S/o.Venkataiah in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 5 S.Indira W/o.Yella Reddy in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 6 M.Shankar S/o.Pentaiah in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District 7 M.Chandra Sekhar Reddy S/o.Rama Rao in Mother Dairy Hayathnagar Rangareddy District ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 The State of A.P. rep.by its Secretary Finance and Planning Department Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad 2 The State of A.P. rep.by its Secretary Agriculture Department Secretariat Buildings,Hyderabad 3 The A.P.Dairy Development Corporation Federation Limited rep.by its Vice Chairman and Managing Directo Lalapet, Hyderabad 4 The Mother Dairy rep.by its General Manager Hayathnagar, Rangareddy District 5 The State of A.P., rep.by its Secretary Legislative Affairs, Secretariat, Hyderabad .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue an order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the Act 27/1998 issued by the 5th respondent is illegal, arbitrary and GO.Ms.No.212, F&P, Dt.22/4/94 and declare the same as illegal, arbitrary and contrary to the orders passed by the Hon'ble High Court as well as the Hon'ble Supreme Court and further direct the respondents to regularise the services of the petitioners in which posts they are working from the date of their initial appointment and pass such other order. Counsel for the Petitioners: MR.P.RAGHAVENDRA REDDY Counsel for the Respondent Nos.1, 2 & 5: G.P. for Finance & Planning Counsel for the Respondent Nos.3 & 4 : Mr. N. Rajeswar Rao SC for APDDFC Ltd., The Court made the following ORDER (per the Hon’ble Sri Justice J. Chelameswar): The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners may be permitted to withdraw the writ petition, as it was already held by this Court in earlier proceedings that such a writ petition is not maintainable as against the third respondent- A.P. Dairy Development Corporation Federation Limited, with liberty to the petitioners to initiate appropriate proceedings as they are advised for agitating their rights which are pleaded before this Court. The Writ Petition is accordingly dismissed as ‘not pressed’ with a liberty to the petitioners, as prayed for. No costs. _______________ J. CHELAMESWAR, J ________________ GODA RAGHURAM, J 7th October, 2004 Note: Issue CC in one week B/o. isn To 1. The Secretary, The State of AP., Finance and Planning Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 2. The Secretary, The State of A.P., Agricultural Department, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 3. The Vice Chairman and Managing Director, The A.P. Dairy Development Corporation Federation Ltd., Lalapet, Hyderabad. 4. The General Manager, The Mother Dairy, Hayathnagar Ranga Reddy District. 5 The Secretary, The State of AP., Legislative Affairs, Secretariat, Hyderabad. 6. Two CCs to G.P. for Finance & Planning, High Court Buildings, Hyderabad (OUT). 7. Two CD copies