{"id":43221,"date":"2010-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-ramesh-vs-excise-commissioner-on-20-april-2010"},"modified":"2018-11-30T11:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:45:32","slug":"c-ramesh-vs-excise-commissioner-on-20-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/c-ramesh-vs-excise-commissioner-on-20-april-2010","title":{"rendered":"C. Ramesh vs Excise Commissioner on 20 April, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">C. Ramesh vs Excise Commissioner on 20 April, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(C).No. 13350 of 2010(P)\n\n\n1. C. RAMESH, PREVENTIVE OFFICER,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. EXCISE COMMISSIONER,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. ASSISTANT EXCISE COMMISSIONER,\n\n3. EXCISE VIGILANCE OFFICER,\n\n4. EXCISE INSPECTOR,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.P.V.KUNHIKRISHNAN\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.N.RAVINDRAN\n\n Dated :20\/04\/2010\n\n O R D E R\n                           P.N.RAVINDRAN, J.\n                         --------------------------------\n                       W.P.(C) No. 13350 of 2010\n                         --------------------------------\n                Dated this the 20th day of April, 2010.\n\n                             J U D G M E N T\n<\/pre>\n<p>        Ext.P6 order passed by the first respondent placing the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner under suspension pending disciplinary action is under<\/p>\n<p>challenge in this writ petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>        2. Ext.P6 is an order issued under Rule 10(1)(a) of the Kerala<\/p>\n<p>Civil Services (Classification, Control &amp; Appeal) Rules, 1960. Under<\/p>\n<p>Rule 23 of the said rules, an appeal lies to the Government from<\/p>\n<p>Ext.P6. The period of limitation prescribed for filing an appeal is 30<\/p>\n<p>days from the date of order appealed against. Ext.P6 order was<\/p>\n<p>passed on 7.4.2010.       Therefore, the period of limitation prescribed<\/p>\n<p>for filing an appeal has not expired. Further, the appellate authority<\/p>\n<p>can also consider whether on the facts, the order of suspension was<\/p>\n<p>warranted.     The petitioner thus has an effective and meaningful<\/p>\n<p>alternate remedy by way of appeal. I am therefore of the opinion<\/p>\n<p>that he should resort to the said remedy instead of straight away<\/p>\n<p>moving this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<p>        The writ petition is accordingly dismissed without prejudice to<\/p>\n<p>the contentions raised by the petitioner in this writ petition and<\/p>\n<p>W.P.(C).No.13350\/2010<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                   2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>reserving liberty with him to challenge Ext.P6 order in appeal before<\/p>\n<p>the State Government under Rule 23 of the Kerala Civil Services<\/p>\n<p>(Classification, Control &amp; Appeal) Rules, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>                                                   P.N.RAVINDRAN<br \/>\n                                                         (Judge)<\/p>\n<p>vps<\/p>\n<p>W.P.(C).No.13350\/2010<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                         3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court C. Ramesh vs Excise Commissioner on 20 April, 2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(C).No. 13350 of 2010(P) 1. C. RAMESH, PREVENTIVE OFFICER, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. EXCISE COMMISSIONER, &#8230; Respondent 2. ASSISTANT EXCISE COMMISSIONER, 3. EXCISE VIGILANCE OFFICER, 4. EXCISE INSPECTOR, For Petitioner :SRI.P.V.KUNHIKRISHNAN For Respondent : No [&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-43221","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>C. 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