Hyderabad: Granting relief to over 1,200 employees of APTransco and APGenco who were relieved for repatriation by the Telangana state government, the Hyderabad High Court on Monday said that they should be paid their salaries.
Justice Reddy Kantha Rao directed the Telangana state government, the Telangana Power Generation Corporation and Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Ltd to pay the salaries.
The judge was dealing with a petition filed by the TSSPDCL to vacate the interim stay suspending its guidelines to allocate the employees to AP and another petition by the employees, challenging the TSSDPCL’s decision to relieve them and also not releasing their salaries despite a stay on the guidelines.
The judge said that till the final order on the litigation, it is the responsibility of the TSSPDCL and other respondents to pay their (the employees’) salaries.”
