IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF JUNE TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No. 13801 of 1996 Between: 1 T.N.Janardhan S/o. T.Natesan 2 Y.Gangaiah S/o. Y.Penchalaiah 3 N.Chandrasekhar Reddy S/o. N.Venkata Subba Reddy 4 N.Guruswamy Reddy S/o. N.Subba Reddy 5 D.Adi Reddy S/o. Venkata Reddy 6 O.R.Subba Reddy S/o.Penchala Reddy 7 D.Subramanyam S/o. Doraswamy 8 M.Krishna Reddy S/o. Venkata Reddy 9 B.Vijaya Raghava Reddy S/o.Narayan Reddy 10 G.Subramanyam S/o. Krishnaiah 11 B.Rami Reddy S/o. Muni Reddy 12 M.Munirathnam S/o. Muni Krishnaiah 13 P.Reddappa Reddy S/o.Reddappa Reddy 14 G.S.Masthan S/o. Dastagiri 15 K.Somasekharan S/o. Ramachandra Naidu 16 K.Balakrishna S/o. Rajagopala Naidu 17 Y.Sreema Murthy S/o. Narsaiah 18 P.Madhusudana Rao S/o. Adinarayanaiah 19 L.Dasthagiri Saheb S/o. Kullaya Saheb 20 K.Lakshmipathi S/o. Siddaiah 21 B.Devarajulu S/o. Ramaiah 22 K.Neelakanta Reddy S/o. Govinda Reddy 23 A.Munikrishnaiah S/o. Peddaiah 24 P.Surendranath S/o. Parthasarthy Reddy 25 V.V.A.P.Anand S/o. Somayajulu 26 E.Bhanu Murthy S/o. Munaswamy Naidu 27 R.Balaramaiah S/o. Ramaiah 28 M.Munaswamy S/o. Krishnaiah 29 P.Gopal S/o. Venkatasubbaiah 30 T.Sankar Reddy S/o. Krishna Reddy 31 B.Ravi Babu S/o. Munirathnam 32 G.Prabhakar S/o. Subramanyam 33 G.L.Surendra Babu S/o. D.L.N.Prasad Rao 34 T.Nararaja Chetty S/o. T.Govindaswamy Chetty 35 D.Ch.Dasthagiri S/o. Dastagiri 36 P.Devadatha Reddy S/o. Krishna Murthy 37 S.Venkatesh S/o. Srinivasulu 38 O.Venkateswarlu S/o. Padmanabham 39 P.Musaswamy S/o. Venkatappa 40 C.Nagaraju S/o. C.Thummulappa 41 M.G.Subramanyam S/o. Gangulaiah 42 S.Ramakrishna S/o. Venkatramana 43 C.Venkatadri S/o. Siddaiah 44 D.Chandrappa S/o. D.Lakshmaiah 45 M.Subbaraghava Raju S/o. M.Ramakrishan Raju 46 P.Ramanaiah S/o. Lakshmaiah 47 U.Narasimha rao S/o. U.Ramaiah 48 B.Ranganatha Reddy S/o. B.Munaswamy Reddy 49 A.Gangaiah S/o. A.Muneppa 50 D.Bhaskar Naidu S/o. D.Chinnabba 51 J.Siddaiah S/o. J.Mallanna 52 N.Venkatramana Reddy S/o. Palakonda Reddy 53 M.Gopinath S/o. M.Muniramaiah 54 N.Krishnaiah S/o. N.Subbarayudu 55 D.Narasimhulu S/o. D.Narasaiah 56 V.Ranga Rao S/o. V.Raju 57 K.Venkatramana S/o. K.Narayana 58 R.Venkata Subbaiah S/o. Yellaiah 59 M.Kuppu Swamy S/o. Sreenivasulu 60 K.Virupakshi S/o. Venkatramaiah 61 V.Sivaiah S/o. V.Chenchuramaiah 62 P.Nagaraju S/o. P.Lakshmanna (All the petitioners are Maistries under Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirumala and residents of Tirupati, Chittoor Dist.) ..... PETITIONERS AND 1 Govt. of A.P., rep. by its Secretary Revenue (Endowments-III) Dept. Secretariat Hyderabad. 2 Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, rep.by its Executive Officer Tirumala-517 501 Chittoor District. 3 Executive Officer, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, Tirumala-517 501 Chittoor District. 4 Conservator of Forests, Chittoor Dist. .....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 a writ, order or direction, particularly a writ in the nature of Mandamus declaring i) the impugned Seniority list issued in Roc.no.TL5/9541/95 dt:10/3/95 published on 22/12/1995 by the respondents 2 & 3 by clubbing Head Mazdoors and Forest Mazdoors in the same seniority list as one category as totally illegal, without jurisdiction and violative of Art. 14 & 16 of the Constitution of India ii)the action of the 3rd respondent in proposing the amendment to the preliminary notification issued in G.O.Ms.No.945 dt: 17/9/1994 from 8th Class to 5th Class for promotion to Head Mazdoor post and to promote to the said post on the basis of the impugned seniority against the proposed newly upgraded 45 posts without first absorbing and regularising the Petitioners as totally illegal, mala fide and violative of Art. 14 & 16 of the Constitution of India iii) and consequently direct the respondents to first absorb all the petitioners Forest Maistries in which post and capacity they were working since the date of their initial appointment i.e., from the years 1981 to 1984. Counsel for the Petitioner : Mr.S.LAKSHMA REDDY The Court made the following : ORDER The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has been instructed by his client to withdraw the writ petition. To the said effect, learned counsel for the petitioner addressed a letter dated 9.6.2005 to the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date: 13.6.2005 DA To 1 The Secretary Revenue (Endowments-III) Dept., Govt. of A.P., Secretariat Hyderabad. 2 The Executive Officer, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, Tirumala-517 501, Chittoor District. 3 The Executive Officer, Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams, Tirumala-517 501 Chittoor District. 4 The Conservator of Forests, Chittoor Dist. 5 Two CD copies.