{"id":16915,"date":"2006-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-s-krishnan-namboodiri-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2006"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:31:11","slug":"n-s-krishnan-namboodiri-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-s-krishnan-namboodiri-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2006","title":{"rendered":"N.S.Krishnan Namboodiri vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">N.S.Krishnan Namboodiri vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2006<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nOP No. 12118 of 2003(P)\n\n\n1. N.S.KRISHNAN NAMBOODIRI, SHANTI\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. V.K.SOMAN, KAZHAKAM LAVANAM,\n3. M.V.VISWANATHAN, SAMBHANDHI LAVANAM,\n4. P.R.SURESH, U.D.CLERK, OFFICE OF\n5. R.NARAYANAN NAIR, STRONG ROOM GUARD\n6. G.BIJU, AREEPURATHU VEEDU,\n7. K.UNNIKRISHNAN, KOUTHUBHOM,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD,\n\n3. DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER,\n\n4. THE GENERAL SECRETARY, TRAVANCORE\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.D.SOMASUNDARAM\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.P.G.PARAMESWARA PANICKER (SR.)\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Justice MR.V.K.BALI\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :04\/12\/2006\n\n O R D E R\n                   V.K.Bali,C.J. &amp; S.Siri Jagan,J.\n\n                  -------------------------------------\n\n                      O.P.No.12118 of 2003-P &amp;\n\n                     W.P.(C).No.20801 of 2006-B\n\n                  -------------------------------------\n\n             Dated, this the 4th day of December, 2006\n\n\n                               JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>V.K.Bali,C.J. (Oral)<\/p>\n<p>            After   arguing   for   some   time,   learned   counsel   for   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioners   seeks   permission   to   withdraw   these   matters   with<\/p>\n<p>liberty   to   raise   industrial   dispute   with   regard   to   questions<\/p>\n<p>involved in the matter. With leave and liberty as asked for, these<\/p>\n<p>petitions are dismissed as withdrawn. C.M.P.No.20818 of 2003 in<\/p>\n<p>O.P.No.12118 of 2003 does not survive.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            V.K.Bali<\/p>\n<p>                                                          Chief Justice<\/p>\n<p>                                                          S.Siri Jagan<\/p>\n<p>                                                                Judge<\/p>\n<p>vku\/-\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court N.S.Krishnan Namboodiri vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2006 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM OP No. 12118 of 2003(P) 1. N.S.KRISHNAN NAMBOODIRI, SHANTI &#8230; Petitioner 2. V.K.SOMAN, KAZHAKAM LAVANAM, 3. M.V.VISWANATHAN, SAMBHANDHI LAVANAM, 4. P.R.SURESH, U.D.CLERK, OFFICE OF 5. R.NARAYANAN NAIR, STRONG ROOM GUARD 6. G.BIJU, AREEPURATHU VEEDU, [&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-16915","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>N.S.Krishnan Namboodiri vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2006 - 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\/n-s-krishnan-namboodiri-vs-state-of-kerala-on-4-december-2006\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"N.S.Krishnan Namboodiri vs State Of Kerala on 4 December, 2006 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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