E. Raju Vs Telangana State Power Generation… — Writ and Judicial Review | Telangana HC (2025)

E. Raju Vs Telangana State Power Generation… — Writ and Judicial Review | Telangana HC (2025)

What the court decided

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Outcome

Writ petition disposed of without costs and without expressing opinion on merits: petitioners directed to make representation to the Committee constituted for verification of data of outsourced personnel; if they fulfil the criteria in the guidelines/orders dated 01.06.2017 and 02.06.2017 (GO Rt.No. 247 dated 02.06.2017), respondents to upload their data, issue instructions for counter-signing and receiving bio-data forms, and consider their cases for absorption on par with others pursuant to the Memo dated 28.02.2017 of the 1st respondent; miscellaneous applications, if any, stand closed.

Issue for consideration

Whether the respondents' failure to issue appropriate instructions to the Field Engineers for counter-signing the Bio-data of outsourced personnel and to receive/upload the petitioners' data, despite general directions of this Court in similar matters, is arbitrary, illegal and violative of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution. +1 more

Court's answer

Without expressing any opinion on merits, the writ petition is disposed of directing the petitioners to make a representation to the Committee constituted for verification of data of outsourced personnel.

Ratio / Principle

If the petitioners fulfil the criteria laid down in the guidelines/orders dated 01.06.2017 and 02.06.2017 vide GO Rt.No. 247 dated 02.06.2017, the respondents are directed to upload the data of the petitioners, issue appropriate instructions for counter-signing the bio-data forms by the Field Engineers, receive the bio-data forms, and accordingly consider their cases for absorption on par with others pursuant to the Memo dated 28.02.2017 issued by the 1st respondent.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

High Court for the State of Telangana at Hyderabad (Nagesh Bheemapaka, J.; order dated 13.03.2025) disposed of Writ Petition No. 24421 of 2017 filed by outsourced contract labourers of Kakatiya Thermal Power Project (TSGENCO) who sought a writ of mandamus declaring arbitrary and illegal the respondents' failure to instruct Field Engineers to counter-sign their bio-data and to receive/upload their data, and seeking consideration for absorption on par with others pursuant to the respondents' Memo dated 28.02.2017, alleging violation of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution. Following the Division Bench orders in W.P. No. 20840 of 2018 and batch dated 03.10.2018 (which had upheld the scheme's cut-off date of 04.12.2016 settled under Section 12(3) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, and routed claims through a verification Committee) and W.P. No. 35258 of 2022 dated 12.09.2022, the Court, without expressing any opinion on merits, directed the petitioners to make representations to the Committee constituted for verification of data of outsourced personnel; and if they fulfil the criteria laid down in the guidelines/orders dated 01.06.2017 and 02.06.2017 vide GO Rt.No. 247 dated 02.06.2017, directed the respondents to upload the petitioners' data, issue appropriate instructions for counter-signing the bio-data forms by the Field Engineers, receive the bio-data forms, and consider their cases for absorption on par with others pursuant to the Memo dated 28.02.2017 issued by the 1st respondent. No costs; miscellaneous applications closed.