IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
WP(C).No. 30990 of 2008(L)
1. M(1) SUBRAMANIAN, S/O/ MANTHRI,
... Petitioner
2. M.RAMASWAMI, S/O.MUTHU NADAR,
Vs
1. THE PRINCIPAL AGRICULTURAL OFFICER,
... Respondent
2. THE SUPERINTENDENT OFANGE AND VEGETABLE,
For Petitioner :SRI.JACOB SEBASTIAN
For Respondent : No Appearance
The Hon'ble MR. Justice P.N.RAVINDRAN
Dated :03/11/2008
O R D E R
P.N.RAVINDRAN, J.
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W.P.(C) No.30990 of 2008
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Dated this the 3rd November, 2008.
J U D G M E N T
The petitioners are workers in the Orange and
Vegetable Farm at Nelliyampathi, belonging to the Agricultural
Department. They were placed under suspension by order
passed on 24.3.2003 and later reinstated in service by Ext.P1
order dated 13.10.2003. The petitioners’ grievance is that
though this Court had in W.P.(C) No.29735 of 2004 directed the
respondents to finalise the disciplinary proceedings within four
months from the date of production of a copy of the judgment,
the disciplinary proceedings have not been finalised till date and
orders have not been passed regarding the manner in which the
period during which they were placed under suspension has to
be regularised. The petitioners also have a grievance that
arrears of pay for the period during which they were under
suspension has also not been disbursed.
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2. When the writ petition came up for admission
today, Smt.Anu Sivaraman, the learned Government Pleader
appearing for the respondents submitted that orders have been
passed on 16.10.2008 by the second respondent finalising the
disciplinary proceedings and directing that the period during
which the petitioners were placed under suspension be
regularised as leave without allowances.
In my considered opinion, that being the situation,
no further orders are necessary in this writ petition, except to
close it as infructuous, reserving liberty with the petitioners to
challenge the orders passed by the second respondent on
16.10.2008, if they are aggrieved thereby. The second
respondent shall forthwith communicate a copy of the order
passed by him on 16.10.2008 to the petitioners.
P.N.RAVINDRAN,
JUDGE
nj.