IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR TUESDAY, THE 1ST MARCH 2011 / 10TH PHALGUNA 1932 WP(C).No. 2791 of 2006(G) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ----------------------- S. RETNA BAI, HEAD READER, PROOF READING SECTION, GOVERNMENT PRESS, MANNANTHALA, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.N.GOVINDAN NAIR (Expired) RESPONDENT(S): ------------------------ 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. DIRECTOR OF PRINTING, GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY SR.GOVT. PLEADER SRI. T.T. MUHAMOOD THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 01/03/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: kp T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR,J. ------------------------------------- W.P.(C)No.2791 Of 2006 ----------------------------------------------------- DATED THIS THE 1st DAY OF MARCH, 2011 J U D G M E N T The petitioner who was working as Head Reader in the Proof Reading Section of the Government Press, Mannanthala, Thiruvananthapuram, approached this Court challenging Exhibit P1 show cause notice proposing to revert her from the said post as Senior Reader. 2. Even though an interim order was granted for a period of one month, the same was not being extended and has expired already. 3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner is no more and hence Office was directed to issue notice to the petitioner in her address. From the endorsement it is stated that notice has already been served; but no fresh vakalath has been submitted by the petitioner. 4. Going by the affidavit filed in the Writ Petition, the petitioner was aged 54 as on the date of filing of the Writ Petition. Therefore, already the petitioner would have retired from service. If there is any surviving grievance for the W.P.(C)No.2791/06 -2- petitioner, she can take up the matter before the appropriate authority. The Writ Petition is dismissed, subject to the above observations. Sd/-(T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JUDGE) dsn True copy P.A.to Judge