HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.13790 OF 1999 Dated 19th AUGUST, 2008 Between: 1. P. Thirupathi Rao, son of Adi Gouda, aged 24 years, Un-employee, resident of G.Kondur (PO) & (M) Krishna District and another. …Petitioners. And: 1. The Chief Regional Manager, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., 130/1, S.D. Road, Post Bag-5, Secunderabad and another. …Respondents. ORDER: The two Petitioners in this Writ Petition seek appointment as General Workmen in the Respondent- Organisation, M/s. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., under the quota said to have been reserved for Land-losers and challenge the inaction of the Respondent-Organisation in not considering their cases in this regard. 2. The Respondent-Organisation ﬁled a Counter stating that there is no scheme in the said organization for reserving any job for Land-losers and that in the light of the special concession made by the State Government in favour of the Land-losers who registered themselves with the employment exchange, such cases were considered on merit. It is also stated in the Counter-aﬃdavit that this Court in an earlier Writ Petition, W.P. No.17050 of 1998 directed, by way of an Interim Order, that the Respondent-Corporation should not fill up the posts of General Workman. 3. I have heard Sri G.V.L.N.Murthy, learned counsel for the Writ Petitioners and Dr. P.B.Vijay Kumar, learned Counsel appearing for the Respondent- Organisation. 4. It is brought to my notice that the Interim Order granted in the earlier Writ Petition has been vacated and the Notiﬁcation which was the subject matter of that Writ Petition had also been withdrawn. The order dated 18-07-2007 passed by the Honourable Sri Justice C.V.Ramulu in another Writ Petition, W.P.No.30661 of 1998 is placed before me. 5. In a similar factual conspectus, the learned Judge took note of the fact that in the light of excess staﬀ already existing in the Respondent-Organisation, the Respondent-Organisation could not give eﬀect to the interviews which had been conducted on 24-5-1998 for ﬁlling up certain posts. Observing so, the learned Judge held that nothing survived for adjudication in the Writ Petition due to lapse of time. The learned Judge further observed that the same would not preclude the Petitioner therein from making a fresh application and that as and when such an application is made, the Respondent-Corporation shall consider the same and pass appropriate orders as per law within a period of four weeks thereafter. The said Writ Petition was dismissed with the above observations. 6. Learned Counsel for the Writ Petitioners stated before me that the Writ Petitioners are willing to abide by a similar order. 7. In the light of the submissions made, the present Writ Petition can be disposed of taking into account the earlier order of this Court dated 18-07- 2007 in W.P.No.30661 of 1998. 8. Accordingly, the present Writ Petition is dismissed observing that the dismissal of this Writ Petition would not preclude the Petitioners from making a fresh application to the Respondent- Organisation in accordance with law for being considered for appointment to the Posts of General Workman and the Respondent-Organisation is at liberty to consider the same in accordance with law and pass appropriate orders. No costs. ____________________________ Justice P.V.SANJAY KUMAR Dated 19th August, 2008. Dvs HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.V.SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.13790 OF 1999 Dated 19th AUGUST, 2008