( 1 ) IT is convenient to dispose of all these writ petitions (29 in number) by a common judgment as there arises a common point, and that is the only point for decision, in all of them; and that point is whether a Writ of Mandamus would issue from this Court to the respective respondents to consider the applications for appointment in respect of the petitioners without insisting on 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 Employment exchange , his liability ceases and the employer precluded from considering the applications received from the candidates direct. The petitioners placed reliance on the decision of a learned single Judge of this Court in sankara Reddy s case, (1979) (1) A. L. T. 404 and a decision of the Division Bench in n. Hara Copal s case, 1985 (3) A. P. L. J. 1501985 (2) ALT 91 NRC,

( 2 ) ON 2-2-1987 when W. P. Nos. 1001/87 and 1021/87 came up before kodandaramayya, J.

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