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The State of Tamilnadu v. S.Revathy (Died)

Madras HC24 Sept 2025WA/1014/2021

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

Madras High Court writ appeal (W.A. No. 1014/2021, Clause 15 Letters Patent) by State of Tamil Nadu and Directorate of Government Examinations dismissed on 24.09.2025; subject: counting of 50% of past services of full-time employees appointed prior to 01.04.2003; Full Bench precedent Government of Tamil Nadu vs. R.Kaliyamoorthy [(2019) (6) CTC 705] relied on as settled and reiterated by coordinate benches; impugned Single Judge order dated 11.04.2018 in W.P.No.8616 of 2018 upheld; LRS substitution for deceased respondent; no costs; bench M.S. Ramesh and R. Sakthivel.

What did the court decide?

None to the appellants; the Writ Appeal is dismissed with no costs, and the connected miscellaneous petition (CMP.No.6380 of 2021) is closed. ¶42

The State of Tamilnadu Vs S.Revathy (Died) — Madras HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

None to the appellants; the Writ Appeal is dismissed with no costs, and the connected miscellaneous petition (CMP.No.6380 of 2021) is closed.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the impugned order dated 11.04.2018 of the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.8616 of 2018 - directing the appellants to count 50% of the past services of the first respondent - suffers from any illegality or other infirmity warranting interference in this writ appeal.

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Court's answer

The legal ratio for counting 50% of the past services of full-time employees appointed prior to 01.04.2003 is well settled by the Hon'ble Full Bench of this Court in Government of Tamil Nadu and Others vs. R.Kaliyamoorthy, reported in [(2019) (6) CTC 705], and has been reiterated by several Coordinate Benches of this Court.

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Ratio / Principle

Applying the settled ratio in R.Kaliyamoorthy (supra), the learned Single Judge had correctly disposed of the Writ Petition with a direction to the appellants to count 50% of the past services of the first respondent; accordingly, this Court finds no illegality or other infirmity in the impugned order of the Writ Court.

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Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Madras High Court Division Bench (M.S. Ramesh and R. Sakthivel, JJ.; judgment authored by M.S. Ramesh, J.) dismissed W.A.No.1014 of 2021 (with connected CMP.No.6380 of 2021) filed by the State of Tamil Nadu, the Director and the Regional Deputy Director of Government Examinations against the order dated 11.04.2018 of the learned Single Judge in W.P.No.8616 of 2018, which - applying the Full Bench ratio in Government of Tamil Nadu and Others vs. R.Kaliyamoorthy, [(2019) (6) CTC 705] - had directed counting of 50% of the past services of the first respondent, a full-time employee appointed prior to 01.04.2003. Holding that the settled Full Bench ratio had been correctly applied and finding no illegality or other infirmity in the impugned order, the Court dismissed the appeal with no costs and closed the connected miscellaneous petition. Legal representatives (husband N. Ramachandran and R. Sathya Priya) had been substituted for the deceased first respondent S. Revathy by order dated 17.09.2025.

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W.A.No.1014 of 2021

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

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DATED : 24.09.2025

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CORAM :

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THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.S. RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE R.SAKTHIVEL

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W.A.No.1014 of 2021 and CMP.No.6380 of 2021

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The State Of Tamilnadu

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Represented By Its Secretary To Government School Education Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 9

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2.The Director Of Government Examinations Directorate Of Government Examinations, College Road, Chennai - 600006

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3.The Regional Deputy Director Of Government Examinations Directorate Of Government Examinations, College Road, Chennai-600006

... Appellant

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W.A.No.1014 of 2021

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S.Revathy (died) No. 81 Elango Street, Parvathy Nagar, Old Perungalathur, Chennai600063

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2.N.Ramachandran (husband) (legal Heir Of Deceased Respondent) 81, Elango St, Parvathy Nagar, Old Perungalathur, Ch 600063.

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3.R.Sathya Priya (Legal heir of deceased respondent) R1 DIED. R2 and R3 are substituted for LRS of deceased R1 vide court order dated 17.09.2025 made in CMP.No.4560/2021 in WA.Sr.No.5145/2019 (WA.No.1014/2021)

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... Respondents

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PRAYER: Appeal is filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, praying to

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set aside the order dated 11.04.2018 made in W.P.No.8616 of 2018.

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For Appellant : Mr.K.H.Ravi Kumar Government Advocate

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For Respondents : Mr.G.Elanchezhiyan for R2 & R3

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W.A.No.1014 of 2021

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JUDGMENT

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(Judgment of this Court was delivered by M.S.RAMESH.J)

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This Writ Appeal has been filed to set aside the order dated 11.04.2018 made in W.P.No.8616 of 2018.

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The legal ratio with regard to counting of 50% of the past services

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for the full-time employees, who were appointed prior to 01.04.2003, have been well settled by the Hon'ble Full Bench of this Court in the case of Government of Tamil Nadu and Others vs. R.Kaliyamoorthy , reported in [(2019) (6) CTC 705], which decision has been reiterated by several Coordinate Benches of this Court.

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Applying the ratio in R.Kaliyamoorthy (supra) , the learned

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Single Judge had disposed of the Writ Petition with a direction to the appellants herein to count 50% of the past services of the first respondent herein.

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M.S.RAMESH, J. and

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W.A.No.1014 of 2021

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Anu

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R.SAKTHIVEL, J.