{"id":235726,"date":"2008-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/g-jayakumar-vs-the-travancore-devaswom-board-on-11-march-2008"},"modified":"2018-01-03T06:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:00:35","slug":"g-jayakumar-vs-the-travancore-devaswom-board-on-11-march-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/g-jayakumar-vs-the-travancore-devaswom-board-on-11-march-2008","title":{"rendered":"G.Jayakumar vs The Travancore Devaswom Board on 11 March, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">G.Jayakumar vs The Travancore Devaswom Board on 11 March, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 3985 of 2008(Y)\n\n\n1. G.JAYAKUMAR, ACCOUNTS OFFICER\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. SRI.C.K.GUPTHAN,\n\n3. SRI.P.NARAYANAN, MEMBER,\n\n4. SMT.P.K.SUMATHYKUTTY AMMA,\n\n5. THE OMBUDSMAN, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.MOHAN C.MENON\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.NAGARAJ NARAYANAN, SC, TDB\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice HARUN-UL-RASHID\n\n Dated :11\/03\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n             KURIAN JOSEPH &amp; HARUN-UL-RASHID, JJ.\n            ----------------------------------------------------------------\n                          W.P.(C)NO. 3985 OF 2008\n            ----------------------------------------------------------------\n\n                    Dated this the 11th day of March, 2008\n\n                                   JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>Kurian Joseph, J.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The challenge in the Writ Petition is against Ext.P4 order dated<\/p>\n<p>31.1.2008 passed by the President of Travancore Devaswom board. The<\/p>\n<p>order is challenged mainly on the ground of competence. Learned counsel<\/p>\n<p>appearing for the first and second respondents have made available a copy<\/p>\n<p>of the proceedings dated 11.3.2008 virtually recalling the impugned order<\/p>\n<p>and admitting the petitioner to duty in the same post of Accounts Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the person who passed the order has recalled the order and has<\/p>\n<p>admitted the petitioner to duty in the same post of Accounts Officer, we do<\/p>\n<p>not find it necessary to go into the various contentions in the Writ Petition.<\/p>\n<p>Those contentions are left open.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The Writ Petition is closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                     (KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE)<\/p>\n<p>                                     (HARUN-UL-RASHID, JUDGE)<br \/>\nsp\/<\/p>\n<p>KURAIN JOSEPH &amp;<br \/>\nHAURN-UL-RASHID, JJ.\n<\/p>\n<p>W.P.(C).NO.3985\/2008<\/p>\n<p>    JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>11TH MARCH, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court G.Jayakumar vs The Travancore Devaswom Board on 11 March, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 3985 of 2008(Y) 1. G.JAYAKUMAR, ACCOUNTS OFFICER &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. THE TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, &#8230; Respondent 2. SRI.C.K.GUPTHAN, 3. SRI.P.NARAYANAN, MEMBER, 4. SMT.P.K.SUMATHYKUTTY AMMA, 5. THE OMBUDSMAN, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM For Petitioner [&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-235726","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>G.Jayakumar vs The Travancore Devaswom Board on 11 March, 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\/g-jayakumar-vs-the-travancore-devaswom-board-on-11-march-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"G.Jayakumar vs The Travancore Devaswom Board on 11 March, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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