IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.N.RAVINDRAN FRIDAY, THE 31ST OCTOBER 2008 / 9TH KARTHIKA 1930 WP(C).No. 31843 of 2008(N) --------------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): -------------------------- N.EASWARAN NAMBOOTHIRI, WORKING AS MELSANTHI, CHERIVANADU DEVASWOM, CHERIVANADU DEVASWOM, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, (RESIDING AT NEELAMANA ILLOM. KEECHERIMEL. CHENGANOOR). BY ADV. SRI.K.SASIKUMAR RESPONDENT(S): -------------------------- 1. THE TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, DEVASWOM BOARD BUILDING, NANDANCODE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE COMMISSIONER, TRAVANCORE DEVASWOM BOARD, NANDANCODE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. THE ASSISTANT DEVASWOM COMMISSIONER, ARANMULA GROUP, ARANMULA. 4. K.VIGNESWARAN NAMBOOTHIRI, KESHAVAMADOM, MULAKUZHA.P.O, CHENGANOOR. ADV. SRI.P.G.PARAMESWARA PANICKER (SR.) FOR R1 TO 3 SRI.P.GOPAL, SC , TDB THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 31/10/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.N.Ravindran, J. ===================== W.P(C).No.31843 of 2008 ===================== Dated this the 31st day of October, 2008. JUDGMENT Heard Sri.K.Sasikumar, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri. P.Gopal, the learned standing counsel appearing for respondents 1 to 3. In the nature of the order that I propose to pass, it is not necessary to issue notice to and hear the fourth respondent. 2. The petitioner is the Melsanthi of Cheriyanadu Devaswom. He is aggrieved by Ext.P2 order whereby the fourth respondent has been transferred and posted as Melsanthi of Cheriyanadu Devaswom. The petitioner submits that the order of transfer has been passed without adhearing to the guidelines evidenced by Ext.P1 and that though the fourth respondent has been posted at Cheriyanadu Devaswom, no order has been issued giving him a posting. 3. When the Writ Petition came up for admission on 29.10.2008, I had directed the learned standing counsel for the Travancore Devaswom Board to ascertain and submit whether the petitioner can be accommodated as Keezhsanthi in Chengannur Devaswom. Today when the Writ Petition came up for further hearing, Sri.P.Gopal, the learned standing counsel for the Travancore Devaswom Board submitted that an open vacancy of Santhi exists in Nellikkal Devaswom, which is 7 kms. away from the petitioner's place of residence and that a vacancy of Santhi will arise in Chengannur Devaswom when the present incumbent is transferred as Keezhsanthi in Cheriyanadu Devaswom. The learned standing counsel also submitted that if the petitioner makes a written request to the third respondent seeking a posting to any one of the said two Devaswoms, the third respondent will consider the same and pass orders within one week thereafter giving the petitioner a posting in either of the two Devaswoms. WP(C) 31843/08 -: 2 :- 4. I have considered the submissions made at the Bar by the learned counsel appearing on either side. In the light of the submissions made by Sri. P.Gopal, the learned standing counsel for the Travancore Devaswom Board, the petitioner cannot in my view, have any subsisting grievance. The Travancore Devaswom Board has now offered to the petitioner a choice of two stations at which he can be posted. In these circumstances, I dispose of the Writ Petition with a direction to the petitioner to file an appropriate representation before the third respondent to give him a posting at Chengannur Devaswom or Nellikkal Devaswom. On such a representation being filed, the third respondent shall within one week thereafter, pass orders giving a posting to the petitioner in either of the two stations. Till such time, Ext.P2 order of transfer shall be kept in abeyance. It will be open to the fourth respondent to join duty at Cheriyanadu Devaswom after the petitioner is given a posting by the third respondent. P.N.Ravindran, Judge. ess 3/11