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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI
MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM
Chittiboyina Bharata Rao – Appellant
Versus
Krishna District Cooperative Central Bank Ltd. – Respondent
ORDER :
MAHESWARA RAO KUNCHEAM, J.
The writ petitions are filed to declare the action of the respondents in withholding the terminal benefits of the petitioners as illegal, arbitrary, etc., and for consequential direction to pay the terminal benefits to the petitioners along with interest @ 18% per annum and also to pay costs of these proceedings to the petitioners.
2. Heard Sri Peeta Raman, learned counsel for the petitioners and Sri A.Rajendra Babu, learned counsel for respondent Nos.1 & 4.
3. The petitioners have approached this Court seeking direction to the respondents to disburse their terminal benefits. As the relief sought in all these writ petitions is identical and similar lines of arguments were advanced by the learned counsel for both sides, they were taken up together.
Brief case of the petitioners
4. The petitioners were initially appointed as Cadre Secretaries i.e., Paid Secretaries, under the administrative control of the 1st respondent/Krishna District Cooperative Central Bank Ltd. (in short ‘DCCB’). As per orders of the DCCB, the petitioners and other similarly situated persons were allotted to Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society (in short ‘PACS’). At that point, t
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