{"id":26938,"date":"2008-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-chandran-vs-the-kerala-water-authority-on-1-february-2008"},"modified":"2018-07-16T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:16:40","slug":"k-chandran-vs-the-kerala-water-authority-on-1-february-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-chandran-vs-the-kerala-water-authority-on-1-february-2008","title":{"rendered":"K.Chandran vs The Kerala Water Authority on 1 February, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">K.Chandran vs The Kerala Water Authority on 1 February, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 8086 of 2004(K)\n\n\n1. K.CHANDRAN, ACCOUNTS OFFICER GRADE II,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. THE KERALA WATER AUTHORITY,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, KERALA WATER\n\n3. K.LALITHABHAI, SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.M.SASINDRAN\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.M.V.MATHAI MUTHIRENTHY, SC, KWA\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice KURIAN JOSEPH\n\n Dated :01\/02\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                             KURIAN JOSEPH, J.\n\n                  ----------------------------------------------\n\n                 Writ  Petition (C) No.8086  of 2004\n\n                  ----------------------------------------------\n\n                       Dated  1st February,   2008.\n\n\n                                J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>              Petitioner   approached   this   court   with   certain<\/p>\n<p>grievances   regarding   his   promotion   as   Senior   Administrative<\/p>\n<p>Officer   and   for   other   consequential   reliefs.     It   is   seen   that   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner   has   already   retired   from   service.     Therefore,   the   writ<\/p>\n<p>petition is disposed of making it clear that in case the petitioner<\/p>\n<p>has still any grievance left, it will be open to him to approach the<\/p>\n<p>Government, in which case, the matter will be duly considered by<\/p>\n<p>the Government with notice to the petitioner, first respondent and<\/p>\n<p>other   affected   parties,   if   any,   and   appropriate   orders   in<\/p>\n<p>accordance with law         will be passed within another four months.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                  KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE.\n<\/p>\n<p>tgs<\/p>\n<p>                KURIAN JOSEPH, J<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\n<\/p>\n<p>     Writ  Petition (C) No.8086  of 2004<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>                  J U D G M E N T<\/p>\n<p>           Dated 1st February,  2008.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court K.Chandran vs The Kerala Water Authority on 1 February, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 8086 of 2004(K) 1. K.CHANDRAN, ACCOUNTS OFFICER GRADE II, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. THE KERALA WATER AUTHORITY, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, KERALA WATER 3. K.LALITHABHAI, SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE For Petitioner :SRI.M.SASINDRAN [&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-26938","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>K.Chandran vs The Kerala Water Authority on 1 February, 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\/k-chandran-vs-the-kerala-water-authority-on-1-february-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"K.Chandran vs The Kerala Water Authority on 1 February, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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