J.Rathnagiri, v. The Government of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED: 30.11.2023 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.S.RAMESH and W.M.P.Nos.12955, 19072 and 19578 of 2020

¶1J.Rathnagiri

¶2R.Kumar

¶3S.Jayachandran

¶4S.Kumaresan

¶5S.Santhoshkumar .. Petitioners in WP.4177/2020

¶1K.Baskaran

¶2A.M.Gokula Santhana Krishnan

¶3S.Venkatesan

¶4S.S.V.Muthamilarasan

¶5B.Karthik

¶6S.Suresh Kumar

¶7J.Muthuramalingam

¶8S.Shozharaja

¶9P.Jagadish

10.C.Palanivelu ..Petitioners in WP.10927/2020 -vs-

¶1The Government of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary, Public Works Department,

¶2The Engineer-in-Chief (WRO) & Chief Engineer (General) Public Works Department, Chepauk, Chennai-5.

¶3The Tamilnadu Public Service Commission, Rep. by its Secretary, Frazer Bridge Road, Chennai 600 003. ..Respondents in WPs.4177 & 10927/2020 PRAYER: Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to publish, within a time frame, the seniority list of Assistant Engineers in Public Works Department after revising the inter se seniority of the Assistant Engineers selected by the 3rd respondent pursuant to the advertisement No.247 notified by the 3rd respondent on

14.07.2010 (WP.4177/2020) and advertisement No.151 notified by the 3rd respondent on 31.01.2008 (WP.10927/2020) based on their marks obtained in the competitive examination conducted by the 3rd respondent for their selection as ordered by this Court in their judgment dated 31.03.2015 passed in W.A.No.2730 of 2012, etc., batch. WP.No.10669/2020 L.Vijaya Raghav .. Petitioner -vs-

¶1The Government of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary, Public Works Department,

¶2The Chief Architect, Public Works Department, Chepauk, Chennai-5.

¶3The Tamilnadu Public Service Commission, Rep. by its Secretary, Frazer Bridge Road, Chennai 600 003. .. Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to publish, within a time frame as may be fixed by this Court, the seniority list of Junior Architects of Public Works Department after duly revising the inter se seniority of the Junior Architects who were initially selected by the 3rd respondent pursuant to the Notification No.34 dated 31.08.2012 based on the marks they scored in the competitive examination conducted by the 3rd respondent for their selection as ordered by this Court in their judgments dated 31.03.2015 and 15.11.2019 passed in W.A.No.2705 of 2012, etc., batch and W.P.No.998 of 2017 and consequently direct the respondents to consider, if found eligible, the petitioner for promotion as Assistant Architect notionally from the date on which one Ms.R.Deepika, Jr.Architect was promoted with all consequential monetary benefits and service benefits in the promoted post within a time frame as may be fixed by this Court. WP.No.15243 of 2020

¶1Nagalakshmi.M

¶2Santhosh Kumaar.B

¶3Kangavel.K

¶4Pradeep Kumar.J

¶5G.Ramkumar

¶6Palanisamy.R

¶7Prabakaran.S

¶8R.Kannan

¶9Mariappan.G

10.Saravanan.R

11.V.Sundar

12.Elango.M

13.Gobi.S

14.Murali.K.K.

15.Gnanaprabha.S

16.G.Raja

17.A.Senthilkumar

18.Maheswari.A

19.U.Ramya

20.Natarajan.P

21.Padmanabhan.R

22.Veeramani.T

23.Rajkumar.K.R.

24.Kesavaramkumar.V

25.Yuvaraj.A

26.Sathishkumar.K

27.Vigneshwaran.P

28.S.Prema

29.Balasubramani.T

30.Pushpavalli.K

31.Isaiamuthan.R

32.Mohankumar.K

33.Mohaankumar.D

34.Vijayakumar.A

35.Prabha.S

36.Praveen.P

37.P.Amsupandi

38.Dilipan.S

39.R.Parameswari .. Petitioners -Vs-

¶1The Government of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary, Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi Department,

¶2The Director of Sericulture, Nethaji Nagar, Hasthampatti, Salem 636007. .. Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to publish, within a time frame, the seniority list of Junior Inspectors of Sericulture after revising the inter se seniority of the Junior Inspector of Sericulture selected for the year 2015-2016 by the 2nd respondent based on the marks they scored in the competitive examination conducted by the 2nd respondent for their selection as ordered by this Court in their judgment dated 31.03.2015 passed in W.A.No.2730 of 2012, etc., batch. WP.No.15740 of 2020

¶1T.S.Elangovan

¶2S.Jothibasu

¶3S.Bharathan

¶4B.Arun Prasad

¶5M.Rajan

¶6R.Dharmaraja

¶7V.Srinivasan

¶8B.Muthukumar

¶9V.Lingarajan

10.A.Balasenthilnathan

11.R.Rajkumar

12.S.Jegannathan

13.K.Soundhararajan

14.S.Kannan

15.M.Ganesh Chinnathambi .. Petitioners -vs-

¶1The Government of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary, Highways Department,

¶2The Director General (Highways), Highways Department, Sardar Patel Road, HRS Campus, Guindy, Chennai-25.

¶3The Tamilnadu Public Service Commission, Rep. by its Secretary, TNPSC Road, Chennai 600 003. .. Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the respondents to revise the inter-se seniority of Assistant Engineers who were initially selected based on Combined Services Examinations 2006 conducted by the 3rd respondent for Highways Department based on the marks they scored in their selection by the 3rd respondent with effect from the year of their joining the service by extending the judgment of this Court dated 31.03.2015 passed in W.A.No.2705 of 2012, etc. batch and confirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in their orders dated 22.01.2016 within a time frame and accordingly based on such revision of seniority to consider and promote afresh the petitioners and other Assistant Engineers of the said batch based to the category of Assistant Divisional Engineer replacing the already temporarily promoted Assistant Engineers of their batch. For Petitioner in all WPs. : Mr.N.Subramaniyan For Respondents 1 & 2 in all WPs. : Mr.M.Bindran Addl. G.P. For R-3 in WPs. 4177, 10669, 10927, 15740/2020 : Mrs.C.N.G.Niraimathi Stdg. Counsel for TNPSC * * * COMMON ORDER All the petitioners herein have been appointed after 10.03.2003, which is the cut-off date fixed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in a batch of cases relating to fixation of seniority as per the TNPSC seniority merit list.

¶2In the counter-affidavit filed by the respondents, it is stated that the seniority of Assistant Engineers/Junior Inspectors/Junior Architects who were selected in the competitive examination conducted after 2003, have been revised based on the merit list issued by the TNPSC. As such, the grievance of the petitioners having been redressed and hence, no further orders are required to be passed in the present writ petitions. In view of the above, all the writ petitions stand closed. No costs. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petitions are closed.

30.11.2023 Index:Yes/No Internet:Yes/No sra To

¶1The Secretary to Government of Tamilnadu, Public Works Department,

¶2The Engineer-in-Chief (WRO) & Chief Engineer (General) Public Works Department, Chepauk, Chennai-5.

¶3The Secretary, Tamilnadu Public Service Commission, Frazer Bridge Road, Chennai 600 003.

¶4The Chief Architect, Public Works Department, Chepauk, Chennai-5.

¶5The Secretary to Government of Tamilnadu, Handlooms, Handicrafts, Textiles and Khadi Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9.

¶6The Director of Sericulture, Nethaji Nagar, Hasthampatti, Salem 636007.

¶7The Secretary to Government of Tamilnadu, Highways Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9.

¶8The Director General (Highways), Highways Department, Sardar Patel Road, HRS Campus, Guindy, Chennai-25. M.S.RAMESH,J.

(sra) W.P.Nos.4177, 10669, 10927, 15243 and 15740 of 2020

30.11.2023