IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TENCH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 21308 of 2004 Between: Smt. K.Atchamma, W/o.Subbarami Reddy, S.V.University Womens Hostel, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The Registrar S.V.University, Tirupathi, Chittoor District. 2 The Government of A.P., rep.by its Secretary, Higher Education Dept., Secretariat Buildings, 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 will be pleased to issue an appropriate writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondent authorities in not regularising the service of the petitioner in the post of Rice clearner, in the office of the S.V.U.C Hostels for women, Tirupati Chittoor District, is illegal, arbitrary, un-Constitutional, violative of Art 14 & 16 of Constitution of India, and contrary to the orders passed in W.P.No.7889/1990 dated 20-1-2000, and consequently direct the respondents to regularise the service of the petitioner as Rice Cleaner in the office of the S.V.U.C.Hostel for women, Tirupati, or any other equivalent post in the 1st respondent university, and pay the scales on per with other employees and grant all other service benefits forth with. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.G.KRISHNA MURTHY Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.P.SREE RAMULU NAIDU The Court made the following : ORDER: Heard the learned counsel on either side and perused the material on record. This writ petition has been filed seeking Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondent authorities in not regularizing the services of the petitioner in the post of rice cleaner in the office of the S.V.U.C. Hostel for Women, Tirupati, Chittoor District, as illegal and arbitrary and contrary to the orders passed in W.P. No.7889 of 1990 dated 20-01-2000 and consequently direct the respondents to regularize the services of the petitioner as rice cleaner in the said office or any other equivalent post in the first respondent’s University and pay the scales on par with the other employees and grant all other service benefits forthwith. The case of the petitioner is that she was appointed as rice cleaner in the said hostel in the year 1983 on daily wage of Rs.6.22 paise till 1990. Since then the petitioner made several requests to the respondent authorities to regularize her services in the said post but the respondent gave a deaf hear. It is further submitted that the respondent authorities regularized the several other similarly situated persons in the University and the petitioner services alone is not regularized since long time though several vacancies are available. In view of the same, the present petition has been filed seeking a direction to the respondents to regularize her services. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the first respondent issued proceedings vide No.E.I (3)/2005 dated 01-06-2005 appointing the petitioner as cleaner in the existing vacancy. He also submitted that the petitioner has reported for duty on 04-06- 2005. To that effect, the learned counsel for the petitioner placed a copy of the proceedings dated 01-06-2005 and a copy of the joining report of the petitioner. In view of the same, he submitted that no further orders are required to be passed and the petition may be disposed of. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, without going into the merits of the case and accordingly, recording the submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. _________________________ JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH Date: 10-06-2008 LSK