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Dismissed employees not allowed to continue in service

Staff Reporter

HIGH COURTROUND-UP

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday declined the plea of the six persons dismissed from Government service to allow them to continue in service until the disposal of their writ petition.

Justice K. Balakrishnan Nair, however, issued notice to the respondents, including the State Government, on the writ petition. The service of these persons was terminated following their conviction in a case relating to assaulting other staff and rioting during a strike in 2001.

According to the petitioners, the dismissal was illegal. No notice had been issued before dismissing them from service. Nor had they been given any opportunity of being heard. So the order was in violation of principles of natural justice.

The Judicial First Class Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram, had convicted them and imposed a sentence of six months and a fine of Rs. 1,000 on them on charges of unlawful assembly, rioting and other offences.

Campus recruitment stayed

The court of Justice K. Balakrishnan Nair, on Tuesday, stayed all further proceedings initiated by the State Bank of India for filling up 30 per cent of various posts in the bank through campus recruitments.

The stay order came on a writ petition filed by Sanal K.C., a postgraduate student in the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), and another person. According to them, the action of the bank in limiting the selection of candidates through campus interview to three colleges was illegal. It had deprived the petitioners who belonged to the Scheduled Caste communities of their constitutional rights to equality of opportunity in the matter of employment under the State.

Takeover stayed

Justice S. Siri Jagan has stayed all proceedings for taking over the Thunchan Gurumandapam in Palakkad where Thunchath Ezhuthachan spent his last days and installed idols. The stay order was passed on a writ petition filed by the Central NSS Karayogam, Chittur, challenging the move to take over the Gurumandapam after declaring it a protected monument.

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