IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE K.SURENDRA MOHAN FRIDAY, THE 21ST OCTOBER 2011 / 29TH ASWINA 1933 WP(C).No. 27995 of 2011(Y) ---------------------------------- PETITIONER(S): ------------------- 1. BENNY THOMAS, SCPO-G686, AMBALATHARA POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST. 2. MOHANAN.M, SCPO-G690, AMBALATHARA POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST. 3. ABRAHAM, SCPO-G697, RAJAPURAM POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST. 4. CHANDRAN.M, SCPO-G700, HOSDURG POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST. 5. ANNU NAIK.A, SCPO-G702, KUMBALA POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST. BY ADVS. SRI.BIMAL K.NATH SMT.M.K.SHIMI SRI.SREEVALSAN.V RESPONDENT(S): -------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 001. 2. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, KERALA POLICE HEAD QUARTERS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695 001. svs .........2/-... ...2... WPC. NO.27995/2011 3. DISTRICT POLICE CHIEF, KASARGOD-671 121. 4. NARAYANAN NAIR.P, ASI (GRADE) G 739, BEDAKAM POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST.-671 121. 5. GANGADHARAN.K.N, ASI (GRADE) G 740, HOSDURG POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST-671 121. 6. SATHEESAN.K.K., ASI (GRADE) G-741, KUMBALA POLICE STATION, KASARGOD DIST-671 121. R1 TO R3 BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI.LIJU STEPHEN THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 21/10/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: svs W.P.(C). NO.27995/2011 APPENDIX PETITIONER'S EXHIBITS: P1: COPY OF THE CLARIFICATION/ORDER. P2: COPY OF THE JUDGMENT IN WP(C) NO.17133/2007. P3: COPY OF THE CLARIFICATION ORDER NO. L6/81162/08 DATED 21.11.2008 OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE. P4: COPY OF THE RELEVANT PAGES OF THE PROVISIONAL SENIORITY LIST VIDE OFFICE D.O.NO.214/10G DATED 30.6.2010. P5: COPY OF THE ORDER NO.A2/19300/10G DATED 23.3.2011 OF THE 3RD RESPONDENT. P6 & P7:COPY OF THE COUNTER AFFIDAVIT IN OP NO.5917/1995 FILED BY THE IST RESPONDENT AS WELL AS RESPONDENT NO.4 TO 6. P8: COPY OF THE JUDGMENT DATED 16.11.1998 IN OP NO.5917/95. P9:TO P13- A TRUE COPY OF THE REPRESENTATIONS. RESPONDENT'S EXHIBITS: NIL /TRUE COPY/ P.A. TO JUDGE. svs K.SURENDRA MOHAN, J. = = = = = = = = = = = = = WP(C).No.27995 of 2011-Y. = = = = = = = = = = = = = Dated this the 21st October, 2011. J U D G M E N T The petitioners have filed this writ petition raising disputes regarding their seniority. According to the petitioners, they are senior police officers working in various police stations in Kasargod district. They were initially appointed to various districts in the District Armed Reserve and later on, inter-district transfers were granted to them and they were posted to Kasargod district. Such persons who joined pursuant to the inter-district transfers are entitled to be reckoned only as the junior most in the said district. The complaint of the petitioners is that without considering the above rule, a provisional seniority list has been published where persons who had joined Kasargod district much after the petitioners have been placed above them. WP(C).No.27995/2011-Y. 2 2. Aggrieved by the provisional seniority list, the petitioners have submitted representations which are produced as Exts.P9, P10, P11, P12 and P13. However, the second respondent has not considered and passed orders on their representations, till date. The petitioners therefore seek the issue of appropriate directions for the consideration of their grievances. 3. I have heard the learned Government Pleader also. 4. Since the grievances of the petitioners are pending consideration of the second respondent, it is only appropriate that the said authority is directed to consider the grievances, expeditiously. 5. This writ petition is accordingly disposed of directing the second respondent to consider the grievances of the petitioners set out in Exts.P9, P10, P11, P12 and P13 representations in accordance with law and to pass appropriate orders thereon, as expeditiously as possible and WP(C).No.27995/2011-Y. 3 at any rate within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment. K.SURENDRA MOHAN, (Judge) Kvs/-