IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANTONY DOMINIC MONDAY, THE 30TH MARCH 2009 / 9TH CHAITHRA 1931 WP(C).No. 4591 of 2009(V) ------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- 1. SOMAN V.P., S/O. PADMAKSHI AMMA, AGED 51, RESIDING AT VAKATTU PARAMBIL, EDAKOCHI, COCHIN -6, ERNAKULAM DIST. 2. P.S. ABDULSALAM, S/O. SYED MUHAMMED, AGED 54, RESIDING AT PALACKAL HOUSE, MARAVANTHURUTHU P.O., VAIKOM. 3. BABY P.C., S/O. JACOB , AGED 47, RESIDING AT PLACKIYIL HOUSE, IRUMPANAM, P.O. ERNAKULAM DIST. BY ADV. SRI.R.ANILKUMAR SRI.P.BANI RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF INDIA REP. BY ITS REGIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AND OTHERS 2. THE COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AUTHORITY LTD., REP. BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR, KOCHI. 3. THE SENIOR AERODROME OFFICER, COCHIN CIVIL ENCLACE, NATIONAL AIRPORT AUTHROIRTY, W/ISLAND , KOCHI. 4. STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY ITS CHIEF SECRETARY, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. ADV. SRI.N.N.SUGUNAPALAN, (SR),SC FOR R1-3 SMT.T.N.GIRIJA, SC, COCHIN I AIRPORT LT FOR R1-3 BY GOVT. PLEADER SRI. P.N. SANTHOSH THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 30/03/2009, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: ANTONY DOMINIC,J. --------------------- W.P.(C).No.4591 OF 2009 ------------------------ Dated this the 30th day of March, 2009. JUDGMENT Claim of the petitioner is that he should be issued taxi pass at the International Airport, being an ex-taxi operator at the Cochin Air Port. Petitioner mainly claims the said benefit on the strength of Ext.P4, the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of this court in WP(c).No.33423/08 and connected cases. In the statement of the respondent, in paragraph 9, they have stated that only 9 more passes are to be issued to the quota ear-marked for ex-taxi operators and that pursuant to Ext.P4 judgment, the claim raised in the quota are being considered, after placing the matter before the Board of Directors. 2. In this writ petition also, the claim of the petitioner is that being an ex-taxi operator at Kochi Airport, he is also entitled to the taxi pass as claimed by those persons WP(c).No.4591/09 /2/ whose claims are now being considered by the respondents in pursuance to Ext.P4. It is therefore, appropriate that the claim of the petitioner should also be considered. Accordingly, the writ petition is disposed of directing that it will be open to the petitioner to make an application to the Managing Director of the respondent, along with his supporting documents, in which event, as and when the claims of the petitioners in Ext.P4 judgment are considered, the claim raised by the petitioner shall also be considered, as expeditiously as possible and at any rate within two weeks from today. (ANTONY DOMINIC) JUDGE vi/ WP(c).No.4591/09 /2/