{"id":225692,"date":"2007-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-p-francis-vs-kerala-state-road-transport-on-12-march-2007"},"modified":"2017-06-25T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T05:13:03","slug":"m-p-francis-vs-kerala-state-road-transport-on-12-march-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-p-francis-vs-kerala-state-road-transport-on-12-march-2007","title":{"rendered":"M.P.Francis vs Kerala State Road Transport &#8230; on 12 March, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M.P.Francis vs Kerala State Road Transport &#8230; on 12 March, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 8152 of 2007(U)\n\n\n1. M.P.FRANCIS, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. T.S.SUBRAMANIAN, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC,\n3. P.K.MOHANACHANDRAN, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. KERALA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.K.P.RAJEEVAN\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice PIUS C.KURIAKOSE\n\n Dated :12\/03\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                          PIUS C.KURIAKOSE, J.\n\n                     ----------------------------------\n\n                      W.P.(C)NO. 8152 of    2007\n\n                     ----------------------------------\n\n                Dated this 12th day of   March, 2007\n\n\n                                  JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>       Sri.Johnson   P.John,   the   learned   Standing   Counsel   takes<\/p>\n<p>notice  on behalf of the respondent Corporation. Having regard to<\/p>\n<p>the   grounds   raised,   documents   placed   on   record   and   the<\/p>\n<p>submissions   of   Sri.K.P.Rajeevan,   the   learned   counsel   for   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioners   and     Sri.   Johnson   P.John,   the   learned   Standing<\/p>\n<p>Counsel,   this   writ   petition   will   stand   disposed   of   at   this   stage<\/p>\n<p>itself with the following direction:<\/p>\n<p>       The   K.S.R.T.C.   will   release   all   the   amounts   due   to   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioners   on   account   of   Provident   Fund   Closure   together   with<\/p>\n<p>statutory interest till  date of payment and also  the amounts due<\/p>\n<p>on account of Staff Welfare Fund within two months of  receiving<\/p>\n<p>a copy of this judgment.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                               PIUS C.KURIAKOSE<\/p>\n<p>                                                           Judge<\/p>\n<p>dpk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court M.P.Francis vs Kerala State Road Transport &#8230; on 12 March, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 8152 of 2007(U) 1. M.P.FRANCIS, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC, &#8230; Petitioner 2. T.S.SUBRAMANIAN, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC, 3. P.K.MOHANACHANDRAN, (CONDUCTOR, KSRTC, Vs 1. KERALA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, &#8230; Respondent For Petitioner :SRI.K.P.RAJEEVAN 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-225692","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>M.P.Francis vs Kerala State Road Transport ... on 12 March, 2007 - 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\/m-p-francis-vs-kerala-state-road-transport-on-12-march-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"M.P.Francis vs Kerala State Road Transport ... on 12 March, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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