HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE ABHINAND KUMAR SHAVILI AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE LAXMI NARAYANA ALISHETTY WRIT APPEAL Nos.1165 & 1172 of 2024 COMMON JUDGMENT:

(per Hon’ble Sri Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty)

Writ Appeal Nos.1165 and 1172 of 2024 are filed assailing the common order, dated 03.06.2024, passed by a learned single Judge of this Court in W.P.Nos.38124 of 2022 and 2246 of 2023, respectively.

2. By the impugned common order, the learned single Judge of this Court allowed the Writ Petitions filed by respondent No.1 herein in both the Writ Appeals, seeking to declare the action of the appellants in treating the women reservation as vertical reservation instead of horizontal reservation, pursuant to notification No.2/2022 dated 09.05.2022, as illegal, arbitrary and in violation of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution of India and for other consequential reliefs.

3. Heard Sri G.Vidyasagar, learned senior counsel appearing for Sri R.Vinod Reddy, learned Standing Counsel for the appellant-

Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) and Sri Goda Shiva, learned senior counsel appearing for Smt Goda Ramalakshmi, learned counsel on record for respondent No.1 in bot