THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH And THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZAL PURKAR W.P.Nos.1016 & 1361 of 2000 W.P.No.1016/2000 BETWEEN: 1. Govt. of A.P. rep. By its Secretary, Agrl. & Co-op., Dept., Secretariat, Hyderabad, and another. PETITIONERS AND 1. S. Narayan Reddy, Supervisor, Agricultural Market Committee, Proddutur, Cuddapah District, and another. W.P.No.1361/2000 1. Govt. of A.P. rep. By its Secretary, Agrl. & Co-op., Dept., Secretariat, Hyderabad, and another. PETITIONERS AND 1. N. Varaprasad Reddy, Junior Marketing Supervisor, Agricultural Market Committee, Proddutur, Cuddapah District, and another. Counsel for petitioners: G.P. for Service-I (in both the WPs) Counsel for respondents. Mr. L. Ravichander (in both the WPs) The Court made the following order. COMMON ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Vilas V. Afzal Purkar) These two writ petitions are directed against the orders of the A.P. Administrative Tribunal in O.A.Nos.2223 and 2226 of 1999 dated 28.04.1999. The said two O.As were disposed of by a common order by following the earlier order of the Tribunal in O.A.No.701 of 1998 dated 19.01.1998. By virtue of the said orders, the case of the respondents herein was directed to be considered on par with the earlier cases of B. Seshaiah and Basheer Ahmed, so far as the post of Secretary Grade-III, in Department of Marketing is concerned. The present writ petitions were filed by the State against each of the said orders in the said O.As. At the time of admission of these writ petitions on 31.01.2000, this Court had granted interim suspension of the impugned judgment in the said O.As. The learned Government Pleader for Services-I submits that these matters are now fully covered by the judgment of a Division Bench of this Court in W.P.No.1762 of 2000 and batch dated 8.10.2001, which was reported in Government of A.P. and another v. S. Yellamanda[1]. In the aforesaid batch of cases, the correctness of the judgment in O.A.No.701 of 1998 referred to above was directly in issue. In addition thereto, the present common impugned orders in the two O.As. also related to another O.A.No.2209 of 1999, and the correctness of which was questioned by the Government in W.P.No.19190 of 1999. The same was also decided by the Division Bench in the aforesaid judgment and the said writ petitions were allowed by dismissing the O.As. Since the impugned orders in the present writ petitions squarely follow the earlier judgment of the Tribunal in O.A.No.701 of 1998, which has since been reversed by the Division Bench of this Court in the reference cited above, these writ petitions also fully covered by the said Division Bench judgment, and they are deserved to be allowed. Accordingly, both the writ petitions are allowed and the respective O.A.Nos.2223 and 2226 of 1999 before the A.P. Administrative Tribunal, stand dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. __________________ (V. ESWARAIAH, J.) ___________________________ (VILAS V. AFZAL PURKAR, J.) 6th October, 2009 Js. [1] 2002 Suppl. (1) 137