{"id":34257,"date":"2008-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kerala-state-electricity-board-vs-p-k-gopalan-on-9-january-2008"},"modified":"2018-03-10T01:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:28:58","slug":"kerala-state-electricity-board-vs-p-k-gopalan-on-9-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kerala-state-electricity-board-vs-p-k-gopalan-on-9-january-2008","title":{"rendered":"Kerala State Electricity Board vs P.K.Gopalan on 9 January, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Kerala State Electricity Board vs P.K.Gopalan on 9 January, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C) No. 34244 of 2007(B)\n\n\n1. KERALA STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. THE SECRETARY,\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. P.K.GOPALAN, OVERSEER,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE CONTROLLING AUTHORITY UNDER THE\n\n3. THE REGIONAL JOINT LABOUR COMMISSIONER,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN (SR.)\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble the Chief Justice MR.H.L.DATTU\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.M.JOSEPH\n\n Dated :09\/01\/2008\n\n O R D E R\n                       H.L.DATTU, C.J. &amp; K.M.JOSEPH, J.\n                            ------------------------------------------\n                 W.P.(C) Nos.34244, 37650, 37654, 37664,\n              37665, 37666, 33713, 32273, 32288, 36736,\n                 36737 of 2007 &amp; W.P.(C) No.626 of 2008\n                            ------------------------------------------\n                      Dated, this the 9th day of January, 2008\n\n                                    JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>H.L.Dattu, C.J.\n<\/p>\n<p>        In all these writ petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of<\/p>\n<p>India, the Kerala State Electricity Board calls in question the orders passed by<\/p>\n<p>the competent authority under the provisions of the Payment of Gratuity Act,<\/p>\n<p>1972.\n<\/p>\n<p>        2. The issues raised in these writ petitions are identical with the issues<\/p>\n<p>raised and considered by this Court in W.P.(C) No.18696 of 2007 and<\/p>\n<p>connected cases .\n<\/p>\n<p>        3. Following the observations made in the aforesaid decision, these writ<\/p>\n<p>petitions require to be rejected and accordingly they are rejected.<\/p>\n<p>        Ordered accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                   (H.L.DATTU)<br \/>\n                                                                CHIEF JUSTICE<\/p>\n<p>                                                                  (K.M.JOSEPH)<br \/>\n                                                                      JUDGE<br \/>\nvns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Kerala State Electricity Board vs P.K.Gopalan on 9 January, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C) No. 34244 of 2007(B) 1. KERALA STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD, &#8230; Petitioner 2. THE SECRETARY, Vs 1. P.K.GOPALAN, OVERSEER, &#8230; Respondent 2. THE CONTROLLING AUTHORITY UNDER THE 3. THE REGIONAL JOINT LABOUR COMMISSIONER, For [&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-34257","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>Kerala State Electricity Board vs P.K.Gopalan on 9 January, 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\/kerala-state-electricity-board-vs-p-k-gopalan-on-9-january-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kerala State Electricity Board vs P.K.Gopalan on 9 January, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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