Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Sanding Counsel for the respondent Corporation, apart from perusing the record. Since the issue lies in a narrow compass, this Court proposes to dispose of the writ petition at the admission stage itself. 2. Briefly stated, the petitioners, initially appointed as Empanelled Conductors based on the rank list published by the Kerala Public Service Commission, had their services regularised. The grievance of the petitioners is that owing to the delay in reporting the vacancies to the Public Service Commission, the petitioners were kept as Empanelled Conductors for a long time and later they were regularised.
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3. Seeking reckoning of their past service as Empanelled Conductors for the limited purpose of service benefits without any claim to seniority and monetary benefits, the petitioners are said to have made Exhibit P2 representation before the respondent Corporation. Complaining of delay in its consideration, the petitioners have filed the present writ petition.
4. The learned counsel for the petitioners has strenuously contended that the issue raised in the present writ petition is squarely covered by Exhibit P3 judgment rendered by this Court. The learned Standing Counsel for the respondent Corporation, on the other hand, has submitted that the factual matrix of the present writ petition differs from that of Exhibit P3 judgment. According to her, the ratio laid down therein does not have any application.
WPC 26810/14 3 Be that as it may, in the facts and circumstances, having regard to the respective submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Government Pleader, this Court, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the matter, disposes of the writ petition with a direction to the second respondent to consider Exhibit P2 representation of the petitioners keeping in view the ratio laid down by this Court in Exhibit P3 judgment and pass appropriate orders thereon, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment.
It is made clear that the respondent authorities may consider the request of any one of the petitioners to be heard in person at the time of the respondent Corporation considering Exhibit P2 representation.
Dama Seshadri Naidu, Judge tkv