M.Hema, v. The Government Of Tamil Nadu
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 5.9.2017
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE HULUVADI G.RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE RMT.TEEKAA RAMAN W.A.No.1005 of 2017 and C.M.P.No.14184 of 2017 1 M.Hema 2 N.Kavitha 3 V.Shri Guhan 4 A.Joanna Jacinth 5 D.Danusri 6 S.Sivashankar 7 P.Banu 8 S.Rajarathinam 9 G.Sathiya 10 R.Manivasagam 11 S.Vinayagam 12 R.Sastri 13 M.Senthil ... Appellants
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1 The Government of Tamil Nadu Rep by its Secretary Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department Secretariat Chennai-600 009 2 O.M.Mahalakshmi 3 P.Viola Bai 4 S.Sakthivel 5 N.Bhavani 6 P.Jagadish 7 T.Marimuthu 8 M.Senthilkumar 9 A.Gowri 10 R.Sulochana 11 N.Balusamy 12 K.Sumathi 13 R.Chithra 14 R.Vijayakumar 15 K.Kavitha 16 S.Divya 17 R.Karukkuvel Raja 18 V.Manogari
19 R.Amutha 20 N.Saravanan 21 D.M.Sudha 22 N.Velu 23 V.Prema 24 T.Sabanayagam 25 R.Jayasubramaniam 26 S.Parameshwari 27 S.P.Ramprasad 28 C.Kuppusamy 29 T.Sasikala 30 R.Vinoth 31 R.Kamaraj 32 J.Vinayagam 33 K.Sennukrishnan 34 G.Rajalakshmi 35 M.K.Radha 36 P.Sankar 37 J.Prem Anand 38 T.Arulmani 39 A.Sankar 40 T.Dhavamani 41 A.Veeramuthukumar 42 N.Dakshanamurthy 43 N.Sridevi 44 M.Ajitha Parvin 45 T.Sasikala 46 B.Sathish Kumar 47 S.Prabhakaran 48 P.Tamil Selvi 49 R.Latha 50 A.Revathi 51 R.Nagarajan 52 S.Alamelu Mangammal 53 D.Rajasekar 54 G.Saravanaselvi 55 S.R.Dhivahar 56 V.Amarnath 57 S.Suresh 58 G.Abarna 59 B.Sangeetha 60 S.Parvin Banu 61 R.Parthasaraty 62 V.Kasivel 63 M.Sailaja 64 L.Elango 65 R.Baskar 66 A.Vijayraj 67 T.K.Porchelvi 68 P.Venmani 69 M.Sundararajan 70 P.Elavarasan 71 P.Saravanan
72 B.Muniraj 73 G.Usharani 74 A.Petchi 75 P.Vasantha Kumar 76 S.Kamala Devi 77 V.Ramya 78 A.Malathy 79 S.Thamaraikannan 80 P.Ganesan 81 R.Priya 82 V.Sasikumar 83 P.Murugan 84 M.Manogaran 85 T.N.Balakumar 86 R.Ramakrishnan 87 R.Pandurangan 88 P.Ranjith Kumar 89 K.R.Mathivadhani 90 P.Umamaheshwari 91 S.Divya 92 S.Tamilvendan 93 E.Praveen Kumar 94 K.P.Agoramurthy 95 C.Parameshwari 96 P.Mahendran 97 K.Thangavel 98 A.Ann Evangelin 99 S.Thiagarajan 100 V.Selvam 101 P.Umamaheshwari 102 S.Vijayalakshmi 103 S.Mohammed Jameela 104 C.Vimal Pratheep Kumar 105 K.Vanitha 106 A.Gopinath 107 B.Kavitha 108 V.Pugazharasan 109 M.Sudha 110 P.D.Rammohan 111 M.Sreelathanjani 112 S.Meenakshi 113 N.Ravikumar 114 M.Sahadevan 115 R.Dhanasekaran 116 K.S.Ananth Prakash 117 V.Radha Krishnan 118 M.Mahendrakrishnan 119 R.Nambi Nachiyar 120 C.Boopalan 121 V.Marimuthu 122 S.Mahesh 123 S.Shanthi 124 S.R.Meha
125 S.Mohana Priya 126 N.Palaniyammal 127 V.Menaka 128 E.Parameshawari 129 C.Suguna Devi 130 C.Vijayalakshmi 131 S.Kiruthiga 132 L.Vanitha 133 S.Savithiri 134 S.Savitha 135 E.Gothandan 136 K.Vengatesan 137 P.Kavitha 138 N.Damodharan 139 B.Banu Priya 140 G.Marudhu Pandian 141 S.Anbu 142 R.M.K.Vengatesan 143 K.Ayyasamy 144 P.Saravanan 145 N.Sibi 146 N.Vivarajan 147 K.Anbazhagan 148 V.Thirumalai Rajan 149 M.Kalaiarasi 150 R.Murugesan 151 K.Paul Pandian 152 E.Rajakumari 153 S.Dharmaraj 154 K.Paldurai 155 K.Vadivelu 156 N.Kulandaisamy 157 D.Anandan 158 R.Rajakumar 159 S.Saminathan 160 R.Sekar 161 C.Ramesh 162 A.B.Uma Maheshwari 163 S.Kalpana 164 R.Rengan 165 S.Mohammed Yusuf 166 J.Vijayakumar 167 S.Praba 168 T.Kavitha 169 M.D.Stalin Bharathiraj 170 T.Prema Rani 171 L.Prasad 172 E.Santhana Lakshmi 173 R.Jeeva 174 S.Prabhakar 175 V.Sivakumar 176 G.Anandan 177 M.Sakthivel
178 D.Sivakumar 179 T.Venkatesan 180 V.Prasanth 181 K.Sangeetha 182 A.Ravi 183 A.Selvam 184 M.Piramathevan 185 A.V.Jaiganesan 186 G.Satheesh Kumar 187 S.Subhasini 188 N.Gunalan 189 K.Vellaidurai 190 A.Sundarajan 191 M.Praveena 192 D.Vennila 193 T.Selvan 194 S.Anbumani 195 J.Sangeetha 196 M.P.Rajakumari 197 M.Syed Mohan 198 A.Venkatesan 199 V.Muthupondian 200 H.Jaison Selvakumar 201 S.Pandeeswari 202 M.Shanmugakani 203 G.Kogilan 204 D.Kavitha 205 V.Vijayan 206 S.Kumar 207 N.Vidhya 208 N.Sathiyamurthy 209 A.Pushparaj 210 A.Mohamed Ali 211 P.Jeyaprakash 212 V.Kaliamurthy 213 P.Manokaran 214 T.Kalidoss 215 S.Chandra 216 K.Sureshkanna 217 P.Usha 218 G.Mohanavalli 219 M.Senthil Kumar 220 U.Raman 221 C.Vasudevan 222 G.Suresh 223 K.Punithan 224 V.R.Revathi 225 P.R.Kadhar Mohideen 226 M.S.Sathish Kumar 227 S.Arunachalam 228 T.Vallikannan 229 P.Muthukumar 230 K.Arun
231 G.Damodaran 232 G.Moorthy 233 G.Dayalan 234 P.Saravanan ... Respondents Prayer: Writ Appeal filed filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 2.8.2017 passed in W.M.P.No.35877 of 2016 in W.P.No.41887 of 2016 on the file of this court. W.M.P.No.35877 of 2016 : Petition to grant an interim injunction restraining the 1st Respondent from approving any panel of ASOs fit for promotion to the category of Section Officer in Tamilnadu Secretariat Departments under the 1st Respondent including therein the ASOs who are juniors to the petitioners and arraigned as respondents 2 to 234 herein, pending disposal of this Writ Petition.
W.P.No.41887 of 2016 : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records on the file of the 1st respondent relating to the issue of impugned orders, viz., G.O.Ms. No.111 Personnel and Administrative Reforms (U) Department dated 11.11.2016 G.O. (4D) No. 32 Personnel and Administrative Reforms (U1) Department dated 19.5.2015 and G.O. (4D) No.33 Personnel and Administrative Reforms (U1) Department dated 19.5.2014 and quash the same and consequently direct the 1st respondent to redraw the panel of Assistants fit for promotion to the category of ASO for the year 2009-10 including therein the petitioners; to regularise the services of the petitioners in the category of ASO with effect from 10.12.
2009 the date from which they were working temporarily, on par with juniors, namely respondents 2 to 29, and to redraw the seniority list of ASOs following the quota-rota prescribed under the rule 8 of Tamilnadu Secretariat Services Rules containing therein all the names of ASOs working as on date with required service particulars, viz., date of birth, date of joining, method of appointment, etc., after publishing a provisional seniority list seeking objections and after considering the objections if any received therefor.
For Appellants : Mr.N.Subramaniyan For R1 : Mr.K.Venkatramani, Additional Advocate General assisted by Mr.V.Jayaprakash Narayanan, Special Government Pleader
JUDGMENT
(Judgment of the court was made by HULUVADI G.RAMESH, J.) Heard the learned counsel appearing for the appellants and the learned Additional Advocate General on the order passed by the learned Single Judge vacating the interim order already passed.
2. It appears from the submissions made that these appellants and respondents 2 to 29 were appointed during the year 2007 as Assistants, thereafter, these appellants were promoted alongwith other respondents as Assistant Section Officers and thereafter, it appears that to the disadvantage of these appellants, respondents 2 to 29 were said to have been promoted as Section Officers. Whileso, when the matter was taken up by the learned Single Judge the order of interim stay enjoyed by the appellants herein was vacated and hence, they have come up with the present writ appeal.
3. On the other hand, the stand of the Government, as submitted by the learned Additional Advocate General is that since the interim order was stalling the promotion of various vacancies, the order of stay was sought to be vacated.
4. However, the grievance of the appellants is that they are senior to respondents 2 to 29 and there is personal discrimination in the matter of giving promotion under the pretext of filling up the vacancies, but, that was not properly considered by the learned Single Judge. It is further submitted that there is a likelihood of some more persons getting promotion, who are also juniors to the appellants and hence, the appellants seek indulgence of this court.
5. Be that as it may, the present writ appeal is filed challenging the order vacating the interim stay that was stalling various promotions. Therefore, there is no meaning in keeping the appeal pending for a long period, rather, in view of the submission made by the learned Additional Advocate General, promotions, if any effected, would be subject to the result of the writ petition, we are of the view that the promotions given to the promotees in the present case would be only subject to the outcome of the main writ petition. Their contentions as well as the contentions of the appellants will have to be adjudicated in the main writ petition. The promotions given now would be in the nature of temporary ones and it would not take away the rights of the appellants, if they are senior to the present promotees and their rights would be protected in accordance with law.
6. With the above observation, we make it clear that it is for the learned Single Judge to take up the main case of the
appellants as well as the respondents who have been promoted to the prejudice of these appellants, on priority basis, after giving notice to all the parties concerned. The writ appeal is disposed of accordingly. No costs. The connected miscellaneous petition is closed.
Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS II) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar ssk.
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The Secretary Government of Tamil Nadu Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department Secretariat Chennai-600 009 +1cc to the Government Pleader, S.R.No.64894 W.A.No.1005 of 2017 RSY(CO) CA(23/10/2017)