K. BHASKARAN C. J.

( 1 ) IT is convenient to dispose of all these writ petitions (28 in number) by a common judgement as there arises a common point, and that is the only paint for decision, in all of them; and that point is whether a Writ of Mandamus would issue from t his Court to the respective respondents to consider the applications for appointment in respect of the petitioners with out insisting an their being sponsored by the Employment Exchange, as according to them, the provisions of the Employment Exchange (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959 did not prohibit the consideration of such applications received direct from the candidate. Their contention is that under the said Act, once the employer makes the requisition to the concerned Employment Exchange, his liability ceases and the employer is not precluded from candidate direct the applications received from the candidate direct. The petitioners placed reliance on the decision of a learned single judge of this Court in Sankara Reddy s case (1979) 1 Andh LT 404 and a decision of the Division Bench in N. Hara Gopal s case (1985) 3 APLJ 150 : (1986 Lab IC 182 ). (N. Hara Gopal s case is reversed by Supreme Court

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