IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE TENTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION NO : 24200 of 1998 Between: 1 K.J.Raja Rao, S/o. Simyon. R/o. Mothugudem. 2 N.Ram Kumar, S/o. Narasayya. R/o. Mothugudem. 3 M.Satyanarayana, S/o. Venkateswarlu. R/o. Mothugudem. 4 S.Seethaiah, S/o. Jogaiah. R/o. Mothugudem. 5 S.Thammaiah, S/o. Rajulu. R/o. Mothugudem. 6 P.Narasimha, S/o. Muttayya. R/o. Mothugudem. ..... PETITIONER(S) AND 1 The Superintending Engineer, Operations & Maintenance, Lower Sileru Hyderulic Elctricity Scheme, A.P.S.E.B., Mothugudem, Khammam. 2 The Member Secretary, A.P.S.E.B., Vidyutsoudha, Hyderabad. 3 The Superintendent of Police, Khammam. .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue a writ, order or direction more in the Nature of Mandamus declaring from the date of initial engagement as illegal, arbitrary and consequently direct the respondent Board to treat the petitioners as employees of the Board from the date of their employment by the 3rd respondent with all consequential benefits like arrears and all attendent benefits as deemed fit and proper and pass such other and further orders as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit and proper. Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.D.LINGA RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.K.CHIDAMBARAM(SC FOR AP GENCO) The Court made the following : ORDER: The writ petitioners are all Home Guards engaged by the Police Department of the State Government and they are made available for being deployed, depending upon the exigencies in some of the public sector institutions, like that of Electricity Board. In the present writ petition, the petitioners, who are Home Guards, are seeking absorption into the service of the Electricity Board and they are drawing inspiration for soliciting such a claim on the strength and basis of G.O.Ms.No.287 LEN & TE (Lab.II) dated 07- 05-1981 and G.O. Ms. No.41 dated 23-09-1996, whereunder 33 categories of contract labour have been abolished by the State Government in Electricity Board. Unfortunately, watch and ward staff are not one of those 33 categories of contract labour abolished by the State Government through G.O. Ms. No.41 dated 23-09-1996 so as to absorb the petitioners in any of the posts. Hence, the Writ Petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. ___________________________ NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J. 10th March, 2008 skmr