IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE A.K.BASHEER MONDAY, THE 16TH JULY 2007 / 25TH ASHADHA 1929 Con.Case(C).No. 994 of 2007(S) AGAINST THE JUDGEMENT/ORDER IN WPC.20962/2006 Dated 20/09/2006 .................... PETITIONER/WRIT PETITIONER --------------------------------------------------- SHEELA JOHN,AGED 49, D/O M.O.JOHN LECTURER SELECTION GRADE, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, B.C.M. COLLEGE, KOTTAYAM. BY ADV. SRI.DEEPU THANKAN RESPONDENTS: 2ND RESPONDENT IN WPC ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SRI. MOHANDAS, AGE & FATHER'S NAME NOT KNOWN, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION, KOTTAYAM. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI.A.J.VARGHESE THIS CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 16/07/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN & A.K.BASHEER, JJ. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - W.A.No.2372 OF 2007 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dated this the 26th day of October, 2007 JUDGMENT Radhakrishnan, J Appellant is the first petitioner in the writ petition. Petitioner has approached this court seeking for a declaration that he is entitled to retain 16.9.1985 as his date of promotion into the cadre of U.D. Clerks in the General Education Department and consequential ranking in the seniority list of U.D. Clerks in the department. It is also submitted that the action on the part of the second respondent in prescribing a minimum of two years of duty in the cadre of Lower Division Clerks as an additional requisite qualification for promotion to the cadre of Upper Division Clerks in the General Education Department is illegal. It is submitted that Annexure-I order was issued by the Administrative Assistant on 30.7.2007, after the date of the judgment of the Learned Single Judge. Writ appeal is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to approach the first respondent, if he is aggrieved. K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN, JUDGE A.K.BASHEER, JUDGE jes