APHC010657782025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3208] THURSDAY,THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D RAMESH WRIT PETITION NO: 36548/2025 Between: S Subramanyam Jetty and Others ...PETITIONER(S) AND The State Of Ap and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner(S): 1. PEETA RAMAN Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. VENKATA RAMA RAO KOTA SC FOR APSPDCL 2. V V SATISH (SC for APEPDCL) 3. GP FOR SERVICES I The Court made the following ORDER: 1. This Writ Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking the following relief: “to issue a writ or order, orders or directions more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not taking a policy decision to absorb the services of the petitioners by taking the letter and spirit of the B.P.(P GE) Ms.No.36, dt.18-05-1997 R/w. G.O.Ms. No.41 LET F (Gas 11) Department, dt.23-09-1996 or otherwise, in the lines of Memorandum of Settlement (MoS), dt.04-12- 2016, which got entered between the power managements of utilities therein State of Telangana and Telangana Electricity Trade Union Front (TETUF) in the light of the orders dt.18-09- 2018 passed in WP(PIL) No.149/2017 by the Honble High Court at Hyderabad and also the action of the respondents in not paying petitioners equal pay to equal work or otherwise, at least, minimum time scale attached to the post of Shift Operators contrary to the letter and spirit of the judgment given in State of Punjab vs. Jagjit Singh reported as (2017) 1 SCC 148 as illegal, arbitrary, discriminative, opposed to the doctrine of legitimate expectation and also the doctrine of promissory estoppel besides violative of Arts.14, 16, 21 23 of the Constitution of India and consequently, direct the respondents to absorb the services of the petitioners in regular vacancies by taking the letter and spirit of the B.P.(P GE) Ms.No.36, dt.18- 05-1997 R/w. G.O.Ms. No.41 LET F (Gas-ll) Department, dt.23- 09-1996 or otherwise, in the lines of Memorandum of Settlement (MoS), dt.04-12-2016, which got entered between the power managements of utilities iii) therein State of Telangana and Telangana Electricity Trade Union Front (TETUF) in the light of the orders dt. 18-09-2018 passed in WP(PIL) No.149/2017 by the Honble High Court at Hyderabad besides directing the respondents to pay the petitioners equal pay to equal work or otherwise, at least, minimum time scale attached to the post of Shift Operators contrary to the letter and spirit of the judgment given in State of Punjab vs. Jagjit Singh reported as (2017) 1 SCC 148 and pass….” 2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the respondents. 3. In view of the order passed by this Court on 31.12.2025, the respondent authorities are paying the minimum pay scale/wages applicable to the posts of Shift Operator/Junior Linemen. Therefore, the interim order has been duly implemented and effected. Hence, no further orders are required to be passed in the writ petition. 4. Accordingly, the writ petition is closed. There shall be no order as to costs. Consequently, Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in the writ petition shall stand closed. ________________________ JUSTICE D RAMESH 05.03.2026 klk 240 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D RAMESH WRIT PETITION NO: 36548/2025 05.03.2026 klk