State of Kerala, represented by The Secretary To Government Thiruvananthapuram vs M. M. Thomas

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High Court of Kerala
T.R. RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, A.V. RAMAKRISHNA PILLAI & P.V. ASHA, JJ.
State of Kerala, represented by The Secretary To Government Thiruvananthapuram & Another - Petitioners
Versus
M.M. Thomas & Others - Respondents
Writ Appeal Nos. 1422, 1494, 1498, 1515, 1609, 1719 & 1868 of 2011, 1794 & 1859 of 2013
Decided On: 21-01-2015

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appearing Parties:Government Pleader, P.J. Elvin Peter, A.V. Thomas, T.G. Sunil (Pranavam), K.R. Ganesh, M.V.S. Namboothiri, A.N. Rajan Babum, P. Gopalakrishnan, P.George William, J. Harikumar, Advocates.

Headnote:Kerala University First Statutes, 1979, Chapter XLIX - Kerala University Act, 1974, Chapter VIII Statute 57(1 A) - Kerala Service Rules, 1959, Part III Rule 26 Appendix Xll A - Kerala University (Conditions of Service of Teachers and Members of Non-Teaching Staff) First Statutes 1979, Chapter U Statute 25 - The teachers in Government sector who works on leave without allowances for purpose of employment abroad are not eligible for pension or any other service benefits towards that period.

Judgment:-

Asha, J.

1. These cases have come up for consideration before the Full Bench on being referred by the Division Bench by its order dated 7.9.2007 seeing that there is a conflict between the judgment rendered by a Division Bench in Dr.Krishna Pillai v. State of Kerala [1988 (2) KLT 106] and the judgment of another Division Bench of this Court in W.A 1287/2005.

We heard the learned Senior Government Pleader for the appellants and the learned counsel appearing for the respondents in all these cases.

2. The issue relates to the period spent on leave without allowance for the purpose of employment abroad by the Private College Teachers affiliated to the Universities in the State of Kerala, ie., whether the period during which they were on leave without allowance and during which they were employed abroad, are liable to be reckoned for the purpose of (1) pension (2) for grant of benefit of placement under the University Grants Commission (U.G.C) Scheme.

3. All these Writ Appeals are filed by the State of Kerala. The respondents are retired teachers of private aided colleges affiliated to University of Kerala who had rejoined the respective colleges, after availing leave without allowance for the purpose of employment abroad, for a period of about 5 years and more, and retired from service. The Exhibits referred to herein are those available in W.A. 1422/2011 and produced in the Writ Petition 12615/2004.

The period of leave availed by each of the respondents in the 11 cases are as follows:

Sl.No.	Case No.	Name of petitioner	Period of leave	Date of re-joining	Retirement
1	W.A.No.1422/2011(WPC.12615/2014)	M.M.Thomas	01.05.1977 to 30.04.1982	29.4.1982	31.03.2003
		George James	15.09.1975 to 14.09.1976 15.09.1976 to 14.09.1977		31.03.2002
		Thomas Mathew	15.09.1977 to 14.09.1980 08.04.1978 to 07.04.1983	08/04/83	30.06.1999
		Jacob V John	11.05.1977 to 10.05.1982	11/05/82	30.06.2000
		T.C.Varghese	17.10.1978 to 16.10.1981 17.10.1981 to 16.10.1983	01/06/83
2	W.A.No.1494/2011 (WPC.38378/2003)	Dr.M.I.Andrews	14.3.1978 to 13.03.1981 14.03.1981 to 13.03.1983	14.03.1983	31.03.1998
3	W.A.No.1498/2011 (WPC.17769/2003)	K.Yeshodharan	06.06.1973 to 24.06.1973 01.06.1983 to 29.10.1984	30.10.1984	31.03.2001
4	W.A.No.1609/2011 (WPC.8257/2004)	M.K.John	06.08.1976 to 05.08.1981	15.09.1981	1999-2000
		K.S.Cherian	26.08.1981 to 25.08.1986	10/06/85	1998-1999
		P.Thomas Lukose	22.12.1976 to 21.12.1981		2003
		L.Koshy	27.10.1981 to 26.10.1986		1999-2000
		V.Joseph John	23.09.1981 to 22.09.1986		1999-2000
		T.Babukutty	04.08.1981 to 19.06.1984		31.03.1996
		G.Leelamma	01.08.1981 to 16.10.1984		31.03.2001
		T.S.Johnson	01.02.1981 to 31.03.1986		31.03.2002
5	W.A.No.1868/2011 (WPC No.26983/2003)	K.J.Varghese	29.01.1982 to 28.10.1987	17.11.1986
		Abraham K Koshy	23.12.1981 to 22.12.1983 23.12.1983 to 22.12.1985	04/11/84
6	W.A No.1719/2011 (WPC) 37864/2003)	V.Somanatha Pillai	19.10.1978 to 18.10.1983 Extended for 5 years leave	16.10.1984	31.03.2002
		T.K.Gopalakrishna Pillai	09.11.1981 to 10.11.1984	31.10.1984	31.03.1995
		Susan B.Zachariah	06.08.1981 to 07.08.1986	24.10.1984	31.03.2000
7	W.A.No.1515/2011 (WPC No.39327/2003	Thomas Paul	23.11.1982 to 22.11.1985	05/06/85	31.03.2008
7	W.A.No.1515/2011 (WPC No.39327/2003	P.Varghese Vaidyan	23.11.1982 to 22.11.1983 Extended by 2 years	02/04/85
		K.M.Varghese	06.06.1982 to 07.08.1983 Extended by 2 years	30.04.1984	30.04.2005
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