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Gnanabalan T v. The Branch Manager

Mandamus – Work Experience Certificate – Bank of Baroda (Thiruppavanam Branch)

Madras HC18 Aug 2025WP(MD)/22384/2025

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What is this about?

Work experience certificate; Bank of Baroda; empaneled Appraiser/Jewel Appraiser; de-empanelment; writ of mandamus; Article 226; consideration of representations; prevailing Rules; non-regular employee; second round of litigation; W.P.(MD) No.152 of 2024 dismissed 10.07.2024; six weeks' timeline; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; C.Saravanan J.; 18.08.2025; disposed with no costs.

What did the court decide?

Direction to the respondent to consider and dispose of the petitioner's representations dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025; the Work Experience Certificate shall be issued if there is no embargo under the existing Rules; entire exercise to be completed within six weeks from receipt of a copy of the order; no costs. ¶¶40

Gnanabalan T Vs The Branch Manager — Writ and Judicial Review | Madras HC (2025)

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Issue for consideration

Whether the respondent bank is required to issue a work experience certificate to the petitioner for the period he worked under the bank as an empaneled Appraiser, pursuant to his representations dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025. +1 more

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Court's answer

The Court directed the respondent to consider the petitioner's representations dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025 and dispose of the same.

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Ratio / Principle

If there is no embargo under the existing Rules for issuing such a certificate, the Work Experience Certificate shall be issued to the petitioner (i.e., issuance made contingent on the prevailing Rules).

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Key takeaways

The entire exercise of considering and disposing of the representations shall be completed within a period of six (6) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of the order.ratio¶¶38
This Court did not decide the substantive question whether a non-regular (empaneled) employee is entitled to a Work Experience Certificate; it left that question to be determined by the respondent bank in accordance with the prevailing Rules.¶¶32

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Mandamus — Work Experience Certificate — Bank of Baroda (Thiruppavanam Branch) — Petitioner, empaneled as Appraiser on 30.09.2013 and de-empaneled on 21.05.2022, sought a certificate for his period of work via representations dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025, which went unanswered; second round of litigation, earlier W.P.(MD) No.152 of 2024 having been dismissed on 10.07.2024. HELD (C.Saravanan, J.; disposed 18.08.2025): respondent directed to consider the said representations in the light of the prevailing Rules and dispose of the same within six weeks; certificate to be issued if no embargo exists under the existing Rules. No costs. Substantive entitlement of a non-regular/empaneled worker to such a certificate was not adjudicated.

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W.P.(MD) No. 22384 of 2025

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BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

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DATED: 18.08.2025

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CORAM:

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THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.SARAVANAN

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W.P.(MD) No. 22384 of 2025

T.Gnanabalan

... Petitioner

The Branch Manager, Bank of Baroda, Thiruppavanam Branch, Sivagangai - 630 611.

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... Respondent

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PRAYER: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of Writ of Mandamus to direct the respondent to provide the petitioner with the work experience certificate for the period of work done by him under the respondent Bank based upon the representation dated 21.04.2025.

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For petitioner : Mr. S.Ramsundarvijayraj

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For respondent : Mr. P.Pethu Rajesh Standing Counsel

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ORDER

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This Writ Petition is taken up for hearing at the time of admission with the consent of the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondent.

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This is the second round of litigation. Earlier, the petitioner had approached this Court in W.P.(MD) No.152 of 2024 for the following relief:

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“ To direct the respondents 1 to 3 herein to allow the petitioner forthwith to join and work as Jewel Appraiser in the third respondent Bank on the basis of Verification Report issued by the Inspector of Police, Thiruppuvanam dated 24.07.2023 and by considering the representation given by the petitioner dated 16.10.2023 within the time stipulated by this Court.”

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However, the said Writ Petition was dismissed on 10.07.2024.

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The present Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to direct the respondent to provide the petitioner with the Work Experience Certificate for the work done by the petitioner under the respondent Bank based upon the representation dated 21.04.2025.

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It is noticed that the petitioner was empaneled as an Appraiser on 30.09.2013 by the respondent bank. However, the petitioner's services were dispensed with after he was de-empaneled on 21.05.2022.

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Under these circumstances, the petitioner has now requested the respondent bank to provide Experience Certificate vide representations, dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025, which has not evoked any response. Hence, the petitioner approached this Court for the abovesaid relief.

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Arguing the case on behalf of the respondent, the learned Standing

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Counsel submits that since the petitioner was not a regular employee and therefore, the respondent bank is not obliged to issue the Work Experience Certificate. It is submitted that only a permanent employees for the reasons recorded therein are entitled to such Work Experience Certificate.

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In any event, the learned Standing Counsel for the respondent submits that the petitioner's representations will be considered in the light of the prevailing Rules.

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Recording the same, there shall be a direction to the respondent to consider the aforesaid representations dated 21.04.2025 and 29.04.2025 and dispose of the same.

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