THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE N.V. RAMANA AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.S. APPA RAO L.A.A.S. No. 267 of 2011 Oral Judgment: (Per N.V. Ramana, J.) The Singareni Collieries Company Limited, represented by its General Manager, has filed this appeal against the judgment and decree dated 17.11.2009 passed by the Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kothagudem, Khammam, in L.A.O.P. No. 42 of 2005. Today when the appeal is taken up for hearing, it is submitted by the learned counsel for the appellant and admitted to by the learned counsel for the respondent-claimant that appeals arising out of this very same common judgment and decree, being L.A.A.S. No. 237 of 2010 and batch, by common judgment dated 11.03.2011, were allowed confirming the common judgment under appeal, with the following directions: In the result, all the appeals are allowed only to the extent of granting of interest prior to issuance of the notification under Section 4(1) of the Act and the rest of the orders passed by the learned Principal Senior Civil Judge, Kothagudem in batch of L.A.O.P. Nos. 1 of 2005 to 26 of 2005 and L.A.O.P. Nos. 27 of 2005 to 72 of 2005 respectively, dated 17.11.2009 are hereby confirmed. There shall be no order as to costs. In the circumstances, following the above judgment and for the reasons mentioned therein, this appeal is also allowed by and in terms thereof. While communicating this order, a copy of the judgment in L.A.A.S. No. 237 of 2010 and batch dated 11.03.2011 shall be annexed. No costs. _____________ N.V. RAMANA, J. ______________ K. S.APPA RAO, J. Dated: 15th June, 2011 IBL