IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR THURSDAY, THE 26TH MARCH 2009 / 5TH CHAITHRA 1931 WP(C).No. 9725 of 2009(I) ------------------------- PETITIONER): --------------- MADHUSOODANAN NAIR.N, AGED 49 YEARS, S/O.S.K.NARAYANAN NAIR, `PANCHAVADI', KOTTAMUGAL, KOOVALASSERY, NEYYATTINKARA, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, WORKING AS HEAD CONSTABLE, HCT 6067 (ASI GRADE), CRIME DEPARTMENT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM RURAL. BY ADV. SRI.G.P.SHINOD SRI.RAM MOHAN.G. SRI.MANU V. RESPONDENTS: --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ADDITIONAL CHIEF SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (SOUTH ZONE), OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, SOUTH ZONE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY GOVT. PLEADER SMT. ANU SIVARAMAN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 26/03/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR,J. ------------------------- W.P ( C) No.9725 of 2009 -------------------------- Dated this the 26th March,2009 J U D G M E N T The petitioner is working as Head Constable (Grade ASI) in the General Executive Branch. He was appointed as a Police Constable in the year 1981. Further promotion to the post of Head Constable is to be made from a select list of Police Constables who have qualified in the promotion test. The petitioner has passed the departmental test in the year 1993. The results were published on 05.08.1993 in C.O No.740/1993 of the Commissioner of Police Thrivuananthapuram City. Thereafter he was provisionally promoted as Head Constable on 31.5.1999. 2. To the provisional seniority list of Head Constables published on 7.2.2008 as on 1.1.2003, the petitioner filed an objection. Thereafter the final seniority list was published as per Exhibit-P1. His Serial No. is 506 in the said list. According to the petitioner, he is placed W.P ( C) No.9725 of 2009 2 below so many persons who had qualified in the department test much after the petitioner. 3. In these circumstances he has filed Exhibit-P2 before the Secretary to Government objecting to the final seniority list. 4. Petitioner seeks for a direction to the Government to consider and pass orders on Exhibit-P2. 5. In the result the writ petition is disposed of directing the 1st respondent to consider and pass orders on Exhibit-P2 within a period of four months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment, after affording an opportunity for hearing to the petitioner and any other persons affected by the disposal of the representation and along with any other objections filed against the said list. (T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JUDGE) ma W.P ( C) No.9725 of 2009 3 W.P ( C) No.9725 of 2009 4