{"id":131051,"date":"2008-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vasudevanpotty-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-23-june-2008"},"modified":"2017-05-30T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:47:36","slug":"vasudevanpotty-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-23-june-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vasudevanpotty-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-23-june-2008","title":{"rendered":"Vasudevanpotty vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 23 June, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Vasudevanpotty vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 23 June, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 16745 of 2008(R)\n\n\n1. VASUDEVANPOTTY, SANTHI, VILAYISSERI\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, REP. BY ITS\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER,\n\n3. THE ASSISTANT DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SMT.MINI.S.DAS\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice V.GIRI\n\n Dated :23\/06\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                          V.GIRI, J\n                        -------------------\n                    W.P.(C).16745\/2008\n                        --------------------\n            Dated this the 23rd day of June, 2008\n\n                        JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>      Petitioner is working as Santhi in the first<\/p>\n<p>respondent, Travanore Devaswom Board. Apparently, he<\/p>\n<p>developed an allergy by way of contact dermatitis to<\/p>\n<p>sandal wood and turmeric. Petitioner was examined by<\/p>\n<p>the Medical Board and as evidenced by Ext.P1, the Board<\/p>\n<p>certified his disability.      He therefore, approached the<\/p>\n<p>respondents for category change to the post of Peon and<\/p>\n<p>by Ext.P2 judgment, Board was directed to consider the<\/p>\n<p>case of the petitioner. Thereafter, petitioner was included<\/p>\n<p>in Ext.P4 list, which is a combined seniority list of Temple<\/p>\n<p>Employees on the basis of Full time service for promotion<\/p>\n<p>to the post of Peon\/Lascar as on 1.10.2006. Against serial<\/p>\n<p>No.10, petitioner is shown as due to retire on 31.5.2012.<\/p>\n<p>      Learned    counsel      for      the   Devaswom  Board<\/p>\n<p>Mr.Sreekumar, on instructions, submits that four persons,<\/p>\n<p>included in Ext.P4 ahead of the petitioner, have since<\/p>\n<p>retired. There are at present eight vacancies which could<\/p>\n<p>W.P.(C).16745\/2008<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                              2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>be filled up by operation of Ext.P4 and therefore,<\/p>\n<p>petitioner     will be  accommodated       as  peon,     by<\/p>\n<p>enforcement of Ext.P4.     But the Board will have to<\/p>\n<p>approve Ext.P4 list as such, since the same was issued<\/p>\n<p>by the Commissioner. Submission is recorded.<\/p>\n<p>      In the result, writ petition is disposed of directing<\/p>\n<p>the first respondent to take a decision on Ext.P4 list,<\/p>\n<p>within a period of two months from the date of receipt of<\/p>\n<p>a copy of this judgment. Once the list is approved or at<\/p>\n<p>least approved in so far as the petitioner is concerned,<\/p>\n<p>orders shall be passed thereafter,         appointing the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner against the existing vacancy of Peon, without<\/p>\n<p>further delay.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                       V.GIRI,<br \/>\n                                       Judge<\/p>\n<p>mrcs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Vasudevanpotty vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 23 June, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 16745 of 2008(R) 1. VASUDEVANPOTTY, SANTHI, VILAYISSERI &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, REP. BY ITS &#8230; Respondent 2. THE DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER, 3. THE ASSISTANT DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER, For Petitioner :SMT.MINI.S.DAS For Respondent : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vasudevanpotty vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 23 June, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vasudevanpotty-vs-travancore-devaswom-board-on-23-june-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vasudevanpotty vs Travancore Devaswom Board on 23 June, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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