IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.GIRI WEDNESDAY, THE 10TH JUNE 2009 / 20TH JYAISHTA 1931 WP(C).No. 16026 of 2009(W) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- RADHAMONY AMMA K.V., W/O.VISWAMOHANAN T.G., THEKKEKARA HOUSE, KODUMTHARA, PATHANAMTHITTA (PRESIDENT, SREEVARDHINI KUDUMBASREE (AYALKOOTAM), KODUMTHARA, PATHANAMTHITTA. BY ADV. SRI.S.SUBHASH CHAND SMT.M.P.MARY RESPONDENT(S): ------------------- 1. KERALA STATE BEVERAGES (M&M) CORPORATION LTD., REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. MANAGING DIRECTOR, KERALA STATE BEVERAGES (M&M) CORPORATION LTD., OFFICE OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. MANAGER, KERALA STATE BEVERAGES (M&M) CORPORATION LTD., KODUMTHARA, PATHANAMTHITTA. 4. KERALA STATE VIDESA MADYA VYAVASAYA THOZHILALI UNION, P.KRISHNA PILLAI BHAVAN, NORTH RAILWAY STATION, KOCHI - 18, REPRESENTED BY ITS GENERAL SECRETARY. STANDING COUNSEL SRI.ELVIN PETER THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 10/06/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: V.GIRI, J. ------------------------- W.P.(C).No.16026 of 2009 ------------------------- Dated this the 10th day of June, 2009. JUDGMENT The petitioner is the president of Sreevardhini Kudumbasree (Ayalkootam) a Womens' Welfare Organisation, which submitted a tender for undertaking the work of sticking of adhesive security labels on various liquor bottles on contract basis at the Pathanamthitta Warehouse of the Beverages Corporation. 2. The petitioner's tender was processed and the 2nd respondent, in the course of the same, required the petitioner to intimate the Corporation as to whether the petitioner was willing to do the work in terms of the judgment passed by this court in W.P.(C)No.29351/08, Ext.P3. Ext.P3 dealt with a dispute raised in relation to the warehouse at Kannur, arising from an alleged attempt on the part of the Corporation and its contractors to interfere with the services of existing labelling workers, whose claim made in an Industrial Dispute was pending before the Industrial W.P.(C).No.16026 of 2009 :: 2 :: Tribunal, Kottayam. The directions in Ext.P3 judgment was made applicable to the Pathanamthitta Warehouse also, as evidenced by Ext.P5 judgment and therefore, the petitioner also expressed its willingness to abide by the directions in Exts.P3 and P5. 3. The present complaint arises from the alleged delay on the part of the Corporation to execute an agreement with the petitioner. Learned counsel for the Corporation submits that there was a doubt as to the number of existing labelling workers in the Pathanamthitta warehouse, whose case is also being considered by the Industrial Tribunal, Kottayam in I.D.No.10/07. 4. It is now admitted by both sides that the contentions of 10 labelling workers in the Pathanamthitta warehouse is pending adjudication in I.D.No.10/07. This is evident from the claim statement appended to Ext.P6. In these circumstances, learned standing counsel for the Corporation submits that there is no further impediment in W.P.(C).No.16026 of 2009 :: 3 :: the execution of the agreement. This shall be done at the earliest, at any rate, within two weeks from today. The submission is recorded. Writ petition is disposed of recording the submission. The corporation shall assign work, pursuant to the execution of the agreement, without any delay. Sd/- (V.GIRI) JUDGE sk/ //true copy// P.S. to Judge