V. Senthur vs M. Vijayakumar, IAS, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission

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2021 Supreme(SC) 536

L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAI
V. Senthur – Appellant
Versus
M. Vijayakumar, IAS, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Nithin Saravanan, Adv. Ms. Arunima Singh, Adv. Mr. Karunakar Mahalik, AOR Ms. Priyadarshini, Adv. Ms. Ridhima Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Mr. N. Subramaniyan, Adv Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj, Adv Ms. Shantha D. Raman, Adv Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Ansar, Adv Mr. Arihant Jain, Adv Mr. N. Subramaniyan, Adv Ms. Neha Rathi, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Vinodh Kanna B., AOR Mr. Mukul Rohatgi, Sr.Adv. Mr. C. S. Vaidyanathan, Sr.Adv. Mr. R. Venkataramani, Sr.Adv. Mr. V. Giri, Sr.Adv. Mr. P. Wilson, Sr.Adv. Mr. V. Krishnamurthy, AAG Mr. Amit Anand Tiwari, AAG Ms. C.N.G. Niraimathi, Adv. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T. A.,Adv. Mr. Nitish Raj, Adv. Mr. Akshay Nagarajan, Adv. Ms. Preeti Singh, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. T. R. B. Sivakumar, AOR

ORDER :

B.R. GAVAI, J.

1. The present contempt petitions have been filed by the petitioners praying for initiation of contempt proceedings against the alleged contemnors-respondents for willfully disobeying the order passed by this Court dated 22nd January 2016 in SLP(C) Nos. 2890-2894 of 2016 and SLP(C) No. 2886 of 2016.

2. Brief facts giving rise to the filing of the present petitions are as under :

The contempt petitioners had filed writ petitions before the Single Judge of the Madras High Court being aggrieved by the fixation of inter se seniority list published on 29th April 2004. The petitioners along with the contesting respondents were selected in pursuance of the selection process held on the basis of the notification dated 10th September 1999, issued by the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (hereinafter referred to as “TNPSC”). Upon selection, the selectees were appointed in the Public Works Department of the State of Tamil Nadu and the Highways Department in the year 2000.

3. After a period of 4 years from the date of joining of the selectees, the seniority list came to be notified on 29th April 2004. One R. Balakrishnan made a representation contending therein that though

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2021 Supreme(SC) 536

L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAIV. Senthur – AppellantVersusM. Vijayakumar, IAS, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission – Respondent

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L.NAGESWARA RAO, B.R.GAVAI
V. Senthur – Appellant
Versus
M. Vijayakumar, IAS, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission – Respondent