The Managing Director v. S.Ragavan

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED: 20.03.2024

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.KRISHNAKUMAR and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE R.VIJAYAKUMAR and C.M.P.(MD)No.3716 of 2024 1.The Managing Director, Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Madurai) Ltd., Bye Pass Road, Madurai - 16.

2.The General Manager, Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Madurai) Ltd., Dindigul Region, Dindigul - 4.

3.The Administrator, Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Employees, Pension Fund Trust, Pallavan Salai, Chennai - 2.

: Appellants Vs.

S.Ragavan : Respondent 1/5

PRAYER: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent, praying to set aside the order passed by this Court in W.P.(MD) No.13306 of 2019 dated 09.01.2023.

For Appellants : Mr.S.C.Herold Singh For Respondent : Mr.K.Gokul

JUDGMENT

*************** [Judgment of the Court was delivered by D.KRISHNAKUMAR, J.] This Writ Appeal has been filed challenging the order passed by this Court in W.P.(MD)No.13306 of 2019 dated 09.01.2023.

2.According to the learned Counsel for the respondent, the issue involved in the present Writ Appeal has already been decided in several Writ Appeals and one such Writ Appeal is W.A. (MD)Nos.332 to 336 of 2017, wherein this Court has passed the following order:

'3.The Writ Petitions were filed by the first respondent / Writ Petitioners for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to quash the order issued by the third respondent therein dated 14.03.2011 and for a consequential direction to the respondents therein to re-designate the Writ Petitioners as Junior Assistants retrospectively with effect from the date of 2/5

their initial appointments as Clerk, based on the orders passed by the Government dated 24.07.1992 and on par with 35 employees, who were similarly placed and who were re-designated as Junior Assistants retrospectively, in terms of the order passed by the appellants Corporation dated 25.03.2009 and also to extend all the monetary and consequential benefits to them.

4.The learned Single Judge, taking into consideration the earlier order passed in W.P.(MD)No. 11076 and 11476 of 2014 and W.P.(MD)No.4479 of 2015 dated 12.10.2015, dispose of the said Writ Petitions. The learned Counsel appearing for the first respondents / Writ Petitioners submitted that the orders passed in the Writ Petitions have been implemented and an identical issue was considered by two other Hon'ble Division Benches of this Court in W.A.(MD)No.981 of 2015, dated 29.09.2015 and W.A.(MD)No.83 of 2017, dated 30.01.2017.

5.We have gone through the above decisions referred to by the learned Counsel for the first respondents / Writ Petitioners. The issue involved in the present Writ Appeals is squarely covered by the decisions referred to supra.'

3.In the light of the aforesaid judgment, we are not inclined to entertain this Writ Appeal. The learned Single Judge has rightly dismissed the Writ Petition.

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4.Accordingly, this Writ Appeal stands dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petition is closed.

[D.K.K.,J.] & [R.V.,J.] 20.03.2024 Index : Yes/No Internet : Yes/No MR 4/5

D.KRISHNAKUMAR, J.

and R.VIJAYAKUMAR, J.

MR JUDGMENT MADE IN 20.03.2024 5/5