PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, CJ:-

Question involved in this batch of cases for resolution by Full Bench referred to by a learned Single Judge is, whether the appellate or revisional authority of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (for short 'the Corporation') is justified in declining to entertain an appeal or revision preferred by an employee of the Corporation against the order imposing punishment of stoppage of annual grade increment(s) with cumulative effect on the ground of inordinate delay in preferring the appeal or revision notwithstanding that such punishment which was held to be a major penalty as per the law laid down by the Supreme Court in Kulwant Singh Gill v. State of Punjab, 1991 Suppl. (1) SCC 504, cannot be sustained in law as no detailed procedure contemplated under the APSRTC Regulations for award of a major punishment has been followed. Question also arises for consideration whether the writ Court can decline to entertain a writ petition in similar circumstances?

2. The appellant in WA No. 1411 of 2012 and the petitioners in the other writ petitions are either Conductors or Drivers or other employees working in the A.P. State Road Transport Corp