Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 22 12 1969 of the Kerala High Court in O.P. No.
The appellants thereafter field a writ petition in the Kerala High Court which was disposed of in December 1964 by directing them to file representations to the Government of India on the basis of a certain decision rendered by the High Court earlier.
Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 30 3 1970 of the Kerala High Court in Writ Appeal No.
The second alternative was that the principles laid down by the Government of Madras in their order dated July 17, 1957 be accepted.
On May 10, 1963 the Government of Kerala passed an order adopting the first two alternatives but number the third.
S. Ramanurthi, N. Sudhakaran and P.K. Pillai for Respondent No.
those being rejected, they filed a writ petition in the High Court in August 1965.
1575 of 1970 will govern the other appeal.
On May 16, 1962 the Govern ment of Kerala passed an order modifying its earlier orders so as to companyform to the decision taken by the Government of India on March 1, Consequently, in October 1962 a provi sional integrated gradation list of Junior Engineers was prepared by the State Government giving to the appellants ranks therein at serial number.
the Kerala State.
The decision in Civil Appeal No.
The appellants accordingly made repre sentations and on.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
45 in CA 1575/70.
Employees drawn from the Travancore Cochin area being evidently prejudiced by the decision of the Kerala Govern ment made representations to the Government of India which, on February 16, 1963 recommended three alternatives for the acceptance of Kerala Government.
145, 137 and 123 respectively.
841 of 1974.
S. Nambiar for the Appellants in both the Appeals.
The first alternative thus recommended was that the officers allocated to Kerala from the former Madras State may be allowed the benefit of emer gency service towards seniority in the equated category if such service would have been regularised from the date of their emergency appointment and if it would have been companynt ed for interstate seniority on November 1, 1956, had these officers remained in Madras.
39/70 and Civil Appeal No.
1 in CA 841 and R. 2 in CA 1575/70.
1575/70.
The three appellants were .appointed as temporary Junior Engineers in the Madras High Way Subordinate Service under rule 10 a i 1 of the Madras State and Subordinate Serv ices Rules.
Appellants 1 and 2 were appointed on June 6 and June 8, 1951 respectively while the third appellant was appointed on June 30, 1950.
1 in CA No.
1575 of 1970.
A few years later they were appointed to the very same posts after selection by the Public Service Commission and in companyrse of time, orders were issued under rule 23 a of the aforesaid rules permit ting them to companymence their probation from dates anterior to the dates of their appointments after selection by the Public Service Commission but subsequent to the dates of their initial appointments under rule 10 a i 1 .
Mrs. Shyamla Pappu and Girish Chandra for Respondent No.
C. Bhandare and K.M.K. Nair for Respondent No.
On November 1, 1956, on the reorganisation of States, appellants were allotted as Junior Engineers to.
The first appellant was permitted to companymence his probationary period on July 4, 1954, the second on July 18, 1954 and the third on March 15, 1953.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRACHUD, J. Since these two appeals involve identi cal questions, we propose to state the facts of one of these only.
211/65, Sivarama Nair and ,4.
