{"id":40754,"date":"2010-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-vijayan-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-3-february-2010"},"modified":"2015-09-02T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T03:31:07","slug":"k-vijayan-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-3-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/k-vijayan-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-3-february-2010","title":{"rendered":"K. Vijayan vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 3 February, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">K. Vijayan vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 3 February, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDated 3.2.2010\n\nCORAM\n\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR\n\nWrit Petition No.34194 of 2006\n \n \n\nK. VIJAYAN                                                         ... PETITIONER \n\n                                                 Vs\n\n1.  STATE OF TAMIL NADU,\n     REP. BY SECRETARY TO GOVT.,\n     PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE\n     REFORMS DEPT.,\n     FORT ST. GEROGE,\n     CHENNAI - 09.\n\n2.  TAMIL NADU PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION,\n     REP. BY ITS SECRETARY,\n     CHENNAI - 2.                                             ... RESPONDENTS \n\n    \n\n\tOriginal Application No.9374 of 1998 was filed before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal, Madras Bench praying to set aside the declaration of the results published by the 2nd respondent in the preliminary examination and to direct the respondents to hold fresh examination held on 07.06.1998 giving equal opportunity to all the candidates who applied in different optional subject and conclude the selection (or) in the alternative to consider the claim of the petitioner for main Written Examination of Group I Service and based on the same to consider the petitioner for appointment to any one of the posts in Group I Services.  Since the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal was abolished, the O.A. was received by transfer and numbered as Writ Petition. \n\n\tFor petitioner        : Mr.S.Mani\n\n\tFor respondents    : Mr.S.Sivashanmugam\n\t\t               Government Advocate.\n\n                            -----                              \nO R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p>\t Original Application No.9374 of 1998 was filed before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal, Madras Bench praying to set aside the declaration of the results published by the 2nd respondent in the preliminary examination and to direct the respondents to hold fresh examination held on 07.06.1998 giving equal opportunity to all the candidates who applied in different optional subject and conclude the selection (or) in the alternative to consider the claim of the petitioner for main Written Examination of Group I Service and based on the same to consider the petitioner for appointment to any one of the posts in Group I Services.  Since the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal was abolished, the O.A. was received by transfer and numbered as Writ Petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2. The applicant\/petitioner was 33 years old at the time of filing the O.A., in the year 1998.  The relief sought as above for cannot be granted after a lapse of more than a decade and two years as the issue has become stale and the adjudication will not serve any purpose at this point of time.  Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed.  No costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>ts \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>To<\/p>\n<p>1.  STATE OF TAMIL NADU,<br \/>\n     REP. BY SECRETARY TO GOVT.,<br \/>\n     PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE<br \/>\n     REFORMS DEPT.,<br \/>\n     FORT ST. GEROGE,<br \/>\n     CHENNAI &#8211; 09.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.  TAMIL NADU PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION,<br \/>\n     REP. BY ITS SECRETARY,<br \/>\n     CHENNAI 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court K. Vijayan vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 3 February, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS Dated 3.2.2010 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUDHAKAR Writ Petition No.34194 of 2006 K. VIJAYAN &#8230; PETITIONER Vs 1. STATE OF TAMIL NADU, REP. BY SECRETARY TO GOVT., PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS DEPT., FORT [&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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-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. 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