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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
DEVAN RAMACHANDRAN, P. V. BALAKRISHNAN, JJ.
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation Workers – Appellant
Versus
Kerala State Road Transport Employees' Welfare Association – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Devan Ramachandran, J.
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (for short, KSRTC) notified a referendum in their services and approached the competent Authority of the Labour Department to conduct it leading to the publication of a draft voters list by them.
2. The above list was challenged by certain persons before this Court through WP(C) No.15262/2025, which was disposed of through judgment dated 10/4/2025, with the following observations and directions:-
“If the name of the workman is left out from the draft voter's list prepared by the Returning Officer, he can make individual objection before the Returning Officer within the time stipulated in the election notification. If the members of the petitioner Union are aggrieved by the draft voters' list published, they are free to submit objection before the Returning Officer within the time provided in the election notification.
Leaving open the said right and without prejudice to the contentions of the petitioner in the writ petition, the writ petition is disposed of.”
3. In obedience to the directions and adverting to the objections of certain individuals the Returning Officer - who is of the rank of Deputy Additional L
An interim order should not effectively grant the main relief sought in a writ petition, as it undermines the judicial process.
Disputes regarding electoral rolls must be addressed through statutory remedies under the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act, not via writ petitions.
Electoral procedural integrity must be maintained, and objections concerning voter eligibility must be resolved adequately to ensure timely elections.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that objections to the provisional voters list for co-operative society elections must be within the jurisdiction of the Election Officer and must ....
Court reaffirmed that election processes should not be interrupted over alleged electoral roll breaches; such issues can be contested through election petitions post-election.
As competent authority of respondent-Corporation after considering the findings of inquiry report has come to the conclusion to impose the punishment on petitioner of removal from service which does ....
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the appellants have an alternative remedy available under Rule 28 of the APMC Rules, and therefore, the petition under extraordinary jurisdict....
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