IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE C.N.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.S.GOPINATHAN MONDAY, THE 3RD OCTOBER 2011 / 11TH ASWINA 1933 Con.Case(C).No. 1033 of 2011(S) ------------------------------- AGAINST THE JUDGEMENT IN WA.1621/1998 Dated 11/11/2002 .................... PETITIONER: 1ST RESPONDENT ----------------------------- M.NARAYANAN, aged 48 years, S/O.RAJAGOPALAN UNNI, 'ARCHANA', NEAR PARLI HIGH SCHOOL, PARLI, PALAKKAD DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.R.SATISH KUMAR RESPONDENT: APPELLANT ------------------------ MR.SOMASUNDARAN NAIR, (AGE AND FATHER'S NAME NOT KNOWN TO THE PETITIONER), MANAGER, PARLI HIGH SCHOOL, PARLI, PALAKKAD DISTRICT, PIN 678 592. BY ADV. SRI. T.C. SURESH MENON. THIS CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 03/10/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: CONT. CASE ( C ) 1033/2011 APPENDIX ANNEXURES: ANNEXURE -A1 CERTIFIED COPY OF THE JUDGMENT DATED 24.6.1998 IN O.P. NO. 5572/1997 OF THIS COURT. ANNEXURE A2 CERTIFIED COPY OF THE JUDGMENT DATED 11.11.2002 IN W.A. NO. 1621/1998 OF THIS COURT. ANNEXURE A3 TRUE COPY OF THE ORDER DATED 14.2.2003 IN R.P. NO. 880/2002 ION W.A. NO. 1621/1998 OF TIS COURT. ANNEXURE A4 TRUE COPY O THE LETTER DATED 10.3.2011 SENT BY THE PETITIONER TO THE RESPONDENT. ANNEXURE A5 TRUE COPY OF THE POSTAL RECEIPT DATED 10.3.2011. ANNEXURE A6 TRUE COPY OF REPLY DATED 28.3.2011 SENT BY THE RESPONDENT. ANNEXURE A7 TRUE COPY OF LETTER DATED 10.3.2011 SENT BY THE PETITIONER TO DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, PALAKKAD. ANNEXURE A8 TRUE COPY OF THE POSTAL RECEIPT DATED 10.3.2011. ANNEXURE A9 TRUE COPY OF REPLY DATED 24.3.2011 OF THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, PALAKKAD. // TRUE COPY // P.S. TO JUDGE. KNC/- C.N. RAMACHANDRAN NAIR & P.S. GOPINATHAN, JJ. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = CONT. CASE ( C ) NO. 1033 OF 2011 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = DATED THIS, THE 3RD DAY OF OCTOBER, 2011. J U D G M E N T C.N. Ramachandran Nair, J. This contempt case is filed for alleged violation of direction in the judgment of this Court in W.A. No. 1621 of 1998 which was delivered on 11.11.2002. Petitioner's claim is for appointment as a peon on compassionate ground on the death of his father who served the respondent school and died in 1977. We are unable to entertain the contempt case because the direction issued was in 2002 to consider petitioner's case. Petitioner waited for nine years to file this contempt case which only means that he was not very serious about the employment he is seeking. Petitioner is as of now 48 years of age and even if gets appointment, he is left with only seven years of employment to retire from service. Respondent's counsel submitted that the application was considered and rejected based on direction issued by the Division Bench, which confirmed the learned Single Judge's judgment. We do not think there is any ground to initiate contempt in this matter because petitioner himself delayed the matter CONT. CASE ( C ) NO. 1033 OF 2011 2 by nine years by not processing the relief granted by this Court in 2002. The contempt application filed after nine years of the judgment is highly belated. It is accordingly dismissed. C.N. RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, (JUDGE) P.S. GOPINATHAN, (JUDGE) KNC/-