IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH FRIDAY, THE 14TH DECEMBER 2007 / 23RD AGRAHAYANA 1929 WP(C).No. 17569 of 2004(N) -------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------ J.GODWIN, VILLAGE EXTENSION OFFICER GRADE II, BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, CHITTUMALA-691 502, KOLLAM DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.H.B.SHENOY SRI.B.ASHOK SHENOY RESPONDENTS: ------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE COMMISSIONER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT, C.S.I. BUILDINGS, L.M.S. COMPOUND, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 033. THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 14/12/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: KURIAN JOSEPH J. ---------------------------------------------- Writ Petition (Civil) No.17569 of 2004 ---------------------------------------------- Dated 14th December, 2007. J U D G M E N T The writ petition is filed mainly with the following prayer :- “Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding the respondents to treat the period spent on training by the petitioner from 7.8.1997 to 6.2.1998, as period spent on duty for all purposes and to grant the petitioner, regular scale of pay, increments and all other consequential benefits for the said period, reckoning it as the period spent on duty; within such time limit as this Hon'ble Court may deem fit to fix.” There will be a direction to the first respondent to look into Ext.P4 with notice to the petitioner and pass appropriate orders thereon in accordance with law, within four months from the date of production of a copy of the judgment. The writ petition is disposed of as above. KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE. tgs KURIAN JOSEPH, J ---------------------------------------------- W.P.(Civil) No.17569 of 2004 ---------------------------------------------- J U D G M E N T Dated 14th December, 2007.