{"id":222584,"date":"2008-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/p-i-sadanandan-nair-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-december-2008"},"modified":"2015-03-07T18:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:06:45","slug":"p-i-sadanandan-nair-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/p-i-sadanandan-nair-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-december-2008","title":{"rendered":"P.I.Sadanandan Nair vs State Of Kerala on 2 December, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">P.I.Sadanandan Nair vs State Of Kerala on 2 December, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 35471 of 2008(W)\n\n\n1. P.I.SADANANDAN NAIR, JUNIOR\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION,\n\n3. SHAHUL HAMEED, JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENT,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.BABU JOSEPH KURUVATHAZHA\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice ANTONY DOMINIC\n\n Dated :02\/12\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                     ANTONY DOMINIC, J\n\n    -----------------------------------------------------------\n                    W.P.(C).No.35471\/2008\n    -----------------------------------------------------------\n          Dated this the 2nd day of December, 2008\n\n\n                           JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>     Petitioner submits that he commenced service as LDC<\/p>\n<p>on 28.10.1983 and the 3rd respondent on 2.12.1983. It is<\/p>\n<p>stated that in Ext.P1 seniority list of LDC, in Ext.P4<\/p>\n<p>provisional seniority list of UDC and in Ext.P5 provisional<\/p>\n<p>seniority list of Head Clerk, the petitioner was senior to the<\/p>\n<p>3rd respondent. However, in Ext.P6, seniority in the cadre of<\/p>\n<p>UDC was reassigned and the 3rd respondent has been<\/p>\n<p>assigned seniority over the petitioner. According to the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner, this is erroneous and therefore he has filed<\/p>\n<p>Exts.P8 and P9 before the 2nd respondent.<\/p>\n<p>     In this writ petition he seeks          rectification of the<\/p>\n<p>seniority. If as stated by the petitioner, he has a grievance<\/p>\n<p>against the seniority that is assigned in favour of the 3rd<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                         2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>respondent, it is essentially for the 2nd respondent to deal<\/p>\n<p>with it. Now that the petitioner submits that he has<\/p>\n<p>approached the 2nd respondent by filing Exts.P8 and P9,I<\/p>\n<p>direct the second respondent to consider Exts.P8 and P9 if<\/p>\n<p>these representations have been received and are pending.<\/p>\n<p>This shall be done by the 2nd respondent with notice to the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner and the 3rd respondent, as expeditiously as<\/p>\n<p>possible and at any rate within 8 weeks from the date of<\/p>\n<p>production of a copy of the judgment.\n<\/p>\n<p>     Petitioner shall produce a copy of the judgment along<\/p>\n<p>with a copy of the writ petition before the 2nd respondent<\/p>\n<p>for compliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>     Writ Petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p>                               ANTONY DOMINIC<br \/>\n                                    JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>vi.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court P.I.Sadanandan Nair vs State Of Kerala on 2 December, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 35471 of 2008(W) 1. P.I.SADANANDAN NAIR, JUNIOR &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS &#8230; Respondent 2. THE DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION, 3. SHAHUL HAMEED, JUNIOR SUPERINTENDENT, For Petitioner :SRI.BABU [&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-222584","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>P.I.Sadanandan Nair vs State Of Kerala on 2 December, 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\/p-i-sadanandan-nair-vs-state-of-kerala-on-2-december-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"P.I.Sadanandan Nair vs State Of Kerala on 2 December, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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