IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KURIAN JOSEPH WEDNESDAY, THE 13TH DECEMBER 2006 / 22ND AGRAHAYANA 1928 OP.No. 34463 of 2001(C) ------------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------------ SMT.T.K.VALSAMMA, COMPOSITOR- GRADE – I, GOVERNMENT PRESS, MEPPADI P.O., WAYANAD DISTRICT. BY ADV. SRI.P.VINODKUMAR SRI.SAIBY JOSE KIDANGOOR RESPONDENTS: ---------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REP.BY SECRETARY, SCHEDULED CASTE & SCHEDULED TRIBES, DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, TRIVANDRUM. 2. SCRUTINY COMMITTEE, SCHEDULED CASTE & SCHEDULED TRIBES, DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNMENT, SECRETARIAT, TRIVANDRUM, REP.BY ITS CHAIRMAN. 3. THE VIGILANCE OFFICER, DIRECTORATE, OF KIRTADS, KOZHIKODE. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. K.C.JOSEPH THIS ORIGINAL PETITION HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 13/12/2006, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: KURIAN JOSEPH, J. ---------------------------------------------- O.P.No.34463 of 2001 ---------------------------------------------- Dated 13th December, 2006. J U D G M E N T The scrutiny committee which scrutinized the case of the petitioner is not one constituted under the provisions of Act 11 of 1996. Hence the impugned proceedings of the scrutiny committee and the consequential orders are quashed, without prejudice to the liberty to the competent authority to scrutinize the case of the petitioner under the provisions of Act 11 of 1996, as held by this Court in the judgment in M.F.A.1318/99. The writ petition is disposed of as above. KURIAN JOSEPH, JUDGE. tgs KURIAN JOSEPH, J ---------------------------------------------- O.P.No.34463 of 2001 (C) ---------------------------------------------- J U D G M E N T Dated 13th December, 2006.