IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN FRIDAY, THE 24TH AUGUST 2007 / 2ND BHADRA 1929 WP(C).No. 25967 of 2007(N) -------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------ SHEELA JOHN, LECTURER SELECTION GRADE, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, B.C.M.COLLEGE, KOTTAYAM. BY ADV. SRI.DEEPU THANKAN RESPONDENTS: ------------- 1. MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY, KOTTAYAM, REPRESENTED BY ITS REGISTRAR. 2. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION, KOTTAYAM. 3. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. R1 BY ADV.SRI.T.A.SHAJI, S.C. R2, R3 BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI.A.J.VARGHESE THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 24/08/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, J. ------------------------------------------- W.P(C).No.25967 OF 2007 ------------------------------------------- Dated this the 24th day of August, 2007 JUDGMENT Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader. Having regard to the Deputy Director's stand in the last paragraph of the impugned Ext.P7 that the Government are yet to state its official views on the matter of reckoning broken services below one year duration for the period after 13.3.1990, this writ petition is disposed of preserving all the rights of the petitioner to challenge Ext.P7 and directing that if the petitioner makes appropriate representation before the Government seeking remedial action, including against Ext.P7, the Principal Secretary to the Government of Kerala in the Higher Education Department will ensure that such representation is disposed of within an outer limit of six weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, having regard to the fact that the petitioner had to move this Court at least two times, by now, for reliefs. THOTTATHIL B.RADHAKRISHNAN, Judge kkb.