THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.8618 OF 2010 DATED: 14.06.2010 Between: R. Rama Naidu and others .. Petitioners And The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited, Rep. by its Managing Director, New Delhi and others. .. Respondents ORDER: Heard the learned counsel on either side. It appears, petitioners are regular employees of the East Coast Railways and at the time of their working in the Visakhapatnam Railway Catering Unit, the said Unit was taken over by the 1st respondent- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC), along with the staff working therein, and in view of their willingness to continue in IRCTC, they are being continued in IRCTC Unit at Visakhapatnam. While so, again, in the month of March 2010, the petitioners and other staff members working in IRCTC, Visakhapatnam Unit, were asked to exercise their option for their absorption in IRCTC or for reversion to the parent department of Railways. The petitioners stated to have opted for reversion to their parent department and submitted option forms on 08.03.2010. It is the grievance of the petitioners that their option forms are not yet acted upon by the authorities and, surprisingly, the 2nd respondent issued orders dated 20.03.2010, transferring them to Regional Office at Patna, Regional Office at Guwahati and Refreshment Room at Tatanagar respectively, and aggrieved thereby they submitted an application dated 29.03.2010 to the 2nd respondent, through proper channel, requesting not to transfer them and repatriate them to the parent department as per their option, but the same is also not yet considered. Hence, they filed the present writ petition seeking appropriate orders. The respondents filed counter-affidavit, wherein, at paragraph 8, it is categorically stated that the option forms received from the petitioners have been forwarded to Corporate Office for consideration and necessary action and that their representation for retention at Visakhapatnam is also under consideration and orders have been passed allowing them to join duty at Visakhapatnam till such time their option for repatriation is finalized. In view of the aforesaid averments made in the counter-affidavit of the respondents, no further orders need be passed in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly closed. No order as to costs. _________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 14th June, 2010. IBL