Ponnarsu Venkateswarlu, v. Syndicate Bank,

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO W.P.No.16833 of 2015 ORDER:

Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for Syndicate Bank appearing for the respondent. The respondent-bank made a requisition to the Employment Exchange to sponsor the candidates for the posts of temporary Attenders. The grievance of the petitioners is that the respondent is not receiving the applications from the candidates other than those sponsored by the Employment Exchange.

The present writ petition is therefore filed to direct the respondents to receive the applications of the petitioners for the posts of temporary Attenders without insisting upon their names being sponsored by the Employment Exchange.

Reliance is placed by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners on EXCISE SUPERINTENDENT MALKAPATNAM, KRISHNA DISTDRICT, A.P., Vs. K.B.N. VISWESHWARA RAO AND OTHERS[1], wherein, the Supreme Court has laid down categorically that restricting the selection only to the candidates sponsored by employment exchange is not proper. In addition to requisitioning the names from employment exchange, names should also be called

for by publication in newspapers, having wide circulation and display on office notice boards or announcement on radio, television and employment news bulletins.

In view of the above Judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the respondent is under obligation to receive the applications from the petitioners. Therefore, the respondent is directed to receive the applications from the petitioners and allow them to participate in the selection process including the written test and interview to the existing vacancies of temporary Attender posts without insisting that their names must be sponsored by the Employment Exchange.

Accordingly, the Writ Petition is disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs.

The Miscellaneous Petitions, if any, pending in this writ petition stand closed.

_________________________ JUSTICE R.KANTHA RAO,J 15th June, 2015 rkk [1] (1996) 6 Supreme Court Cases 216