APHC010717762025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI (Special Original Jurisdiction) [3460] TUESDAY,THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX PRESENT THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY WRIT PETITION NO: 201/2026 Between: Dokka Satyanarayana and Others ...PETITIONER(S) AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others ...RESPONDENT(S) Counsel for the Petitioner(S): 1. GUNDAPU RAJESH KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent(S): 1. GP FOR SERVICES I The Court made the following: 2 THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY W.P.No.201 of 2026 O R DE R: 1. This writ petition is filed questioning the action of the Respondents in not providing employment to the Petitioners due to change of contractor as illegal and arbitrary. 2. The Petitioners were appointed as Sanitation Supervisors in the Respondent Corporation in the year 2014 and have been discharging their duties as such. It is stated that there is a change in the man power supplier and pursuant thereto, the Petitioners were not being engaged by the Respondent No.8/Manpower Supplier in view of the new tender conditions. Hence, the present Writ Petition. 3. Learned Assistant Government Pleader on instructions submits that a Writ Petition was filed by the A.P. Medical Contract Employees and Workers Union vide W.P.No.34611 of 2025, and this Court had disposed of the Writ Petition wherein a similar question regarding the imposition of a maximum age limit on outsourcing workers as 50 years was questioned. It is stated that in the Writ Petition, this Court granted liberty to the 3 Petitioners to make a comprehensive representation to the Respondents, and until further orders are passed, the services of the workers were not to be terminated on the ground that they are aged over 50 years. In addition to the above, the petitioners in the present writ petition are challenging the qualification prescribed in the tender conditions, i.e., the degree qualification. 4. Heard the respective counsel. 5. Considering that similar issue was considered by this Court in W.P.No.34611 of 2025, the present Writ Petition is disposed of as under: i) The Petitioners are at liberty to make a comprehensive representation before the Respondent Authorities for consideration of their grievances within a period of two (02) weeks from the date of receipt of the order. Upon submission of such representation, the Respondent Authorities shall pass appropriate orders within a period of four (04) weeks thereafter, after granting opportunity of hearing and making submissions of any authorized representative of the petitioner’s Association. Until such orders are passed, the Petitioners shall be continued 4 in service. ii) There shall be no order as to costs. As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions if any shall stand dismissed. _________________ NYAPATHY VIJAY, J Date: 06.01.2026 eha 5 THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NYAPATHY VIJAY WRIT PETITION NO:201/2026 Dt. 06.01.2026 eha