IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN FRIDAY, THE 27TH MARCH 2009 / 6TH CHAITHRA 1931 WP(C).No. 380 of 2008(T) --------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------------- 1. N.SASIDHARAN, DRAFTSMAN, I GRADE (MECHANICAL), TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, EZHUKONE, KOLLAM. 2. BALACHANDRAN G., DRAFTSMAN, I GRADE (HG), TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, KRISHNAPURAM, ALAPPUZHA. 3. HARIKUMAR G., WORKSHOP FOREMAN (MECHANICAL), TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, ELANJI, ERNAKULAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.V.CHITAMBARESH, SENIOR ADVOCATE SRI.T.C.SURESH MENON SRI.JIBU P THOMAS SRI.P.S.APPU RESPONDENT(S): ----------------------- 1. THE STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY TO TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 023. 3. SENIOR JOINT DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. SR. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SMT. T.B.REMANI THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 27/03/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: WP(C) NO. 380/2008 T APPENDIX PETITIONER'S EXHIBITS : EXT.P1. COPY OF THE ORDER OF PROMOTION OF THE P1 DT. 28/07/86 . EXT.P2. COPY OF THE PROMOTION OF THE P2 DT. 18/11/95. EXT.P3. COPY OF THE RELEVANT PORTION OF THE ORDER OF PROMOTION OF THE P3 DT. 3/07/07. EXT.P4. COPY OF THE CIRCULAR ISSUED BY THE R2 DT. 27/4/2007. EXT.P5. COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO THE P1 DT. 10/12/2007. EXT.P6. COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO P2 DT. 10/12/2007. EXT.P7. COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO P3 DT. 10/12/2007. EXT.P8. COPY OF THE PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO THE P1 DT. 11/12/2007. EXT.P9. COPY OF THE PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO P2 DT. 7/12/2007. EXT.P10. COPY OF THE PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KERALA TO P3 DT. 10/12/2007. EXT.P11. COPY OF THE OBJECTION TO THE PROVISIONAL SENIORITY LIST SUBMITTED BY THE P1 DT. 12/12/2007. EXT.P12. COPY OF THE OBJECTION TO THE PROVISIONAL SENIORITY LIST SUB,ITTED BY P2 DT. 12/12/2007. EXT.P13. COPY OF THE OBJECTION TO THE PROVISIONAL SENIORITY LIST SUBMITTED BY P3 DT. 12/12/2007. EXT.P14. COPY OF THE ORDER DT. 28/11/2008. RESPONDENTS' EXHIBITS : NIL. / TRUE COPY / tga P.N.RAVINDRAN, J. ----------------------------- W.P(C) No. 380 of 2008-T ------------------------------ Dated this the 27th day of March, 2009. J U D G M E N T The first petitioner is working as Draftsman (Mechanical) in Technical High School, Ezhukone in Kollam district. The second petitioner is working as Draftsman (HG), in Technical High School, Krishnapuram in Alappuzha district and the third petitioner is working as Workshop Foreman (Mechanical) in Technical High School, Elanji. They have filed this writ petition mainly seeking a direction the respondents to forbear from effecting promotions to the post of Lecturer in Polytechnic Colleges without publishing a final seniority list. The petitioners have also prayed for a direction to the Director of Technical Education to consider their request in Exts.P11 to P13 representations, to include their names in the provisional gradation list of B.Tech degree holders up to 31.12.2006. 2. This writ petition was presented on 2.1.2008. Thereafter, the final seniority list of employees of the Technical W.P(C) No. 380 of 2008-T 2 Education Department was published. After this writ petition filed, the final seniority list of employees of the Technical Education Department who have acquired B.Tech or equivalent qualification upto 31.12.2007 and are eligible for promotion to the post of Lecturer in Polytechnic Colleges and equated categories of posts was published by the Director of Technical education on 28.11.2008. The petitioners are included in that seniority list, a copy of which is produced as Ext.P14 along with I.A.No.2320/2009. In view of the publication of Ext.P14 seniority list the petitioner cannot have any subsisting grievance. Therefore the main reliefs sought in this writ petition have become infructuous. It is accordingly closed as infructuous with a direction to the competent authority among the respondents to convene the Departmental Promotion Committee to select officers included in Ext.P14 final seniority list for appointment to the post of Lecturers in Polytechnic Colleges and equated categories of posts expeditiously. Sd/- P.N.RAVINDRAN JUDGE //True Copy// ab PA to Judge