IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN THURSDAY, THE 13TH JANUARY 2011 / 23RD POUSHA 1932 WP(C).No. 1152 of 2011(T) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- 1. K.S.JAYALAL, PEON EXCISE DIVISION OFFICE ALAPPUZHA 2. T.VENUMOHAN, PEON,EXCISE DIVISION OFFICE,KOTTAYAM 3. MUHAMMED MOOSA, PEON,EXCISE DIVISION OFFICE,PALAKKAD 4. P.T.SURESH KUMAR, PEON,EXCISE HEAD QUATERS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM 5. ULLAS KUMAR V PEON, O/O.THE ASSISTANT EXCISE COMMISSIONER KERALA STATE BEVERAGES CORPORATION, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM BY ADV. DR.K.P.SATHEESAN SRI.K.K.GOPINATHAN NAIR SRI.M.R.JAYAPRASAD SRI.P.MOHANDAS (ERNAKULAM) SRI.MATHEW SUNNY SRI.ANOOP.V.NAIR RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY THE SECRETARY, TAXES (F)DEPARTMENT,GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-1 2. THE COMMISSIONER EXCISE, COMMISSIONERATE OF EXCISE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-33 GOVT. PLEADER SHRI.ANTONY MUKKATH THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 13/01/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S.SIRI JAGAN, J. ================== W.P.(C).No.1152 of 2011 ================== Dated this the 13th day of January, 2011 J U D G M E N T The petitioners are Last Grade servants in the Excise Department. They have already put in 10 years of service. Their grievance in this writ petition is that they do not have any promotion avenues. They submit that unless the special rules are suitably amended, they would have to retire in the same post. Therefore, by Ext.P3 representation, they have requested the 1st respondent to amend the special rules so as to provide promotion avenues to the petitioners also. The petitioners now seek a direction to the 1st respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P3 expeditiously. 2. I have heard the learned Government Pleader also. 3. Having heard both sides, I dispose of this writ petition with a direction to the 1st respondent to consider and pass orders on Ext.P3, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within three months from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity of being heard to a representative of the petitioners. Sd/- sdk+ S.SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE ///True copy/// P.A. to Judge 2