IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 33377 OF 1998 DATED : JUNE 22, 2007 Between: G. Chandrasekhara Rao and others Petitioners AND The Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board, Rep. By Member Secretary, Vidyut Soudha, Hyderabad and another Respondents THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO. 33377 OF 1998 ORAL ORDER: This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: “…this Hon’ble Court may be pleased to issue a writ order or direction, preferably one in the nature of writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the first respondent in issuing Memo No. DP/AS(MPP)/MPP-11/B1/281/98-2 dated 6.11.1998 and further action of the 2nd respondent i n Lr. No. CEE/O&M/KTPS/V-Stage/F.No./D.No.3789/98 dated 23.11.1998 in notifying the 222 post of Junior Plant Attendants to the District Employment Exchange, Khammam for filling the posts by direct recruitment without absorbing the petitioners herein in the same posts, as illegal, with malafide intention and arbitrary and a l s o violative of Articles 14, 16 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India and issue consequential directions to the respondents to absorb the petitioners in the existing vacancies by setting aside the above memos…” It is represented by Sri Venkat Reddy, Advocate, on behalf of Sri K.Rathanga Pani Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioners that the cause in the writ petition does not survive. Recording the same, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No order as to costs. _____________________ C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, J. June 22, 2007 MAS