B.Vivekanandan v. J. Janorious Fausta

THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 01.03.2023

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.SUBRAMANIAN AND THE HONOURABLE MRS.K.GOVINDARAJAN THILAKAVADI B.Vivekanandan

...Petitioner

Vs.

1.J.Janorious Fausta 2.M.Uma Devi 3.K.Radha 4.M.Sureshkumar 5.P.K.Ajitha 6.P.K.Murugan 7.State of Tamilnadu, Rep. By the Principal Secretary to Government, Home Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

8.The Director General of Police, Chennai - 600 004.

9.The Deputy Inspector of Police, Technical Services, Chennai - 600 004.

10.C.Anand Kumar 11.P.Krishnaswamy 1/7

12.S.Maheswaran 13.S.Sekar 14.K.Gokulakannan 15.R.Vijayasekaran 16.S.Ravikumar 17.H.Arunkumar 18.M.Uma Maheswari 19.P.Hemalatha 20.N.jagadesan 21.R.Raja 22.R.Satyanarayanan 23.Saravanan 24.B.Raju 25.R.Saratha 26.N.Naresh Kumar 27.U.Parthasarathy 28.S.Parimala Devi 29.D.Rajesh 30.M.Bhuvaneswaran 31.V.Akila 32.M.Devendiran 33.K.M.Saravanan 34.K.Srinivasan 35.A.Sundar 36.K.Madhav Mohan 37.A.Sundaravadivelu 38.P.Manjula 39.M.K.Shanthi 40.N.Chitra

...Respondents

Prayer: Review Petition filed under Order 47 Rule 1 r/w. Clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order dated 05.12.2019 in W.A.No.1448 of 2018. 2/7

For Petitioner : Mr.M.Radhakrishnan For Respondents : Mr.B.Kumar, Senior Counsel for Mr.S.Sivakumar for R1 Mr.L.Chandrakumar for Mr.T.Balaji for R4 Mr.M.Radhakrishnan for R6 Mr.K.M.Ramesh for R14 Mr.S.Silambanan, Addl. Advocate General assisted by Mr.L.S.M.Hasan Fizal, Additional Government Pleader for R7 to R9 R2, 3, 5, 10 to 13, 15, 17 to 40 - served - No appearance R16 - Died (Dropped from array of parties vide order, dt.02.08.2022 in Rev.A.Nos.8/2020 & 211/2021

O R D E R

The sole ground, on which, review is sought for is that the review applicant was not served notice in the Writ Appeal and the Writ Appeal came to be allowed without hearing him. While entertaining the review, a Division Bench had passed the following the order on 05.01.2022:- 3/7

"The review applications have been filed to challenge the judgment dated 05.12.2019 passed in W.A.No.1448 of 2018 on the ground that without giving an opportunity of hearing to the respondents in the writ appeal, the judgment of the learned Single Judge was set aside. 2.A perusal of the judgment shows representation of few respondents. But to ascertain whether notices were issued and served on all the respondents in the writ appeal, the Registry is directed to place the records of the writ appeal. The Registry is further directed to prepare a note as to whether notice was issued on respondents and they were served before the date of hearing of the appeal.

3.Let these review applications be listed on 02.02.2022 for compliance of the direction given above." 2.The Registry has filed a report pursuant to the said order, which shows that the complaint of the applicant in Review Application No.8 of 2020 is correct and no notice was served on him in the Writ Appeal, when the Writ Appeal came to be disposed of by the Division Bench. Once it is conceded that notice was not served on one of the respondents, the order, which reverses the order of the Writ Court has to be necessarily re-called. 4/7

3.The next question that would arise is whether the order could be re-called only in respect of the petitioner or in its entirety. Since it is a matter concerning seniority of a bunch of persons, who were appointed as a Sub-Inspector (Technical) in the Police force in the same recruitment, recalling the order in respect of one person alone would not be a correct resolution. Proviso to Order 9, Rule 13 of the Code envisages such situation and empowers the Court to re-call the entire decree. A Writ Appeal being an appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, Proviso to Order 9, Rule 13 of the Code of Civil Procedure will apply. Hence, exercising the power under Proviso to Rule 13 of Order 9, we re-call the entire judgment made in the Writ Appeal No. 1448 of 2018 dated 05.12.2019. 4.In view of the above, this Review Application stands allowed. (R.S.M., J.) (K.G.T., J.) 01.03.2023 kkn Internet:Yes/No Index:Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order Nuetral Citation : Yes/No 5/7

To:- 1.The Principal Secretary to Government, State of Tamil Nadu, Home Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The Director General of Police, Chennai - 600 004.

3.The Deputy Inspector of Police, Technical Services, Chennai - 600 004.

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R.SUBRAMANIAN, J.

and K.GOVINDARAJAN THILAKAVADI, J.

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