THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P.No.14080 of 1998 Between: Smt.S.Lakshmi and others Petitioners And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by it’s Principal Secretary, Education (I.E.1) Department, Hyderabad and others Respondents W.P.No. 16303 of 1998 Between: K.Ramulu Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by it’s Principal Secretary, Education (I.E.1) Department, Hyderabad and others Respondents Date of judgment: 20-04-2007 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO W.P.Nos.14080 of 1998 and 16303 of 1998 COMMON ORDER: 1. Since the issue involved in both the cases is one and the same, they can b e conveniently disposed of together by a common order. 2. The writ petitioners are all employees of the State Government in various departments. They are seeking a writ of Mandamus to declare that the writ petitioners are eligible and entitled to be recruited to the post of Junior Lecturer by way of appointment by transfer in terms of the Rules framed by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in exercise of power available to him under the Proviso to Article 309 of our Constitution called as Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Education Service Rules. The issue concerns the recruitment of the post of Junior Lecturer in the Andhra Pradesh Intermediate Education Service, which is a Government Service. In view of the judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in L.Chandra Kumar Vs. Union of India[1], the writ petitioners cannot institute the writ petitions seeking redressal of their claims at the first instance in this court, but they have to agitate about their rights by instituting the proceedings only before the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal. 3. In view of the same, the writ petitions stand dismissed with liberty to the writ petitioners to agitate their grievance before the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal. No order as to costs. __________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO,J 20-04-2007 Stp [1] 1997 SC page 1125