{"id":156820,"date":"2008-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/r-rajendran-pillai-vs-travancore-devaswam-board-on-29-july-2008"},"modified":"2016-04-13T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T08:49:44","slug":"r-rajendran-pillai-vs-travancore-devaswam-board-on-29-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/r-rajendran-pillai-vs-travancore-devaswam-board-on-29-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"R. Rajendran Pillai vs Travancore Devaswam Board on 29 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">R. Rajendran Pillai vs Travancore Devaswam Board on 29 July, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 10172 of 2006(J)\n\n\n1. R. RAJENDRAN PILLAI, STORE KEEPER\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. COMMISSIONER, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD,\n3. ASSISTANT DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWAM BOARD\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n                For Petitioner  :SMT.I.SHEELA DEVI\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.D.SREEKUMAR, SC, TDB\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice V.K.MOHANAN\n\n Dated :29\/07\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n      C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR &amp; V.K.MOHANAN, JJ.\n                       -------------------------\n                     WP(C) No.10172 of 2006\n                   ---------------------------------\n              Dated, this the 29th day of July, 2008\n\n                           J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>Ramachandran Nair, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>       Heard learned counsel for petitioner and Shri.D.Sreekumar<\/p>\n<p>appearing for the Travancore Devaswom Board.<\/p>\n<p>       2.    Petitioner is a karanma kalavara in the Mannadi<\/p>\n<p>Temple and the prayer is for paying equal amount of salary as<\/p>\n<p>that of regular employees of the Devaswom Board. We have<\/p>\n<p>held in another case that karanma employees cannot be treated<\/p>\n<p>as equal with the regular Devaswom Board employees because<\/p>\n<p>karanma employees belong to a different class. Therefore, we<\/p>\n<p>are unable to uphold petitioner&#8217;s claim that petitioner is entitled<\/p>\n<p>to equal benefits along with regular Devaswom Board<\/p>\n<p>employees.       However, learned Standing Counsel for the<\/p>\n<p>Devaswom Board submitted that there is substantial increase in<\/p>\n<p>the wages of karanma employees and petitioner is a beneficiary<\/p>\n<p>of the same. The increase appears to have been effected after<\/p>\n<p>filing of this writ petition. Therefore, petitioner cannot have any<\/p>\n<p>WP(C) No.10172\/2006<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>grievance as of now on account of increase in wages already<\/p>\n<p>granted. The writ petition is, accordingly, closed.<\/p>\n<p>                      (C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JUDGE)<\/p>\n<p>                            (V.K.MOHANAN, JUDGE)<\/p>\n<p>jg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court R. Rajendran Pillai vs Travancore Devaswam Board on 29 July, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 10172 of 2006(J) 1. R. RAJENDRAN PILLAI, STORE KEEPER &#8230; Petitioner 2. COMMISSIONER, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, 3. ASSISTANT DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER Vs 1. TRAVANCORE DEVASWAM BOARD &#8230; Respondent For Petitioner :SMT.I.SHEELA DEVI For [&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-156820","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. 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