JUDGMENT :

[WP(C) Nos.29882/2024, 5944/2024]

1. Heard Mr A L Navaneeth Krishnan learned Counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.5944/2024; Mr Arun Chandran learned Counsel for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.29882/2024 who appeared for the respondent also in the respective petitions; and Mr Bimal K Nath learned Senior Government Pleader on behalf of the State.

Facts

2. The employee, who is the fourth respondent in W.P.(C) No.5944/2024 and the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.29882/2024, was working as an Accountant in the Kappumthala Service Co-operative Bank. Against the Resolution of the Managing Committee of the Society dated 19.01.2017, whereby the employee’s request for voluntary retirement was accepted and his services stood terminated with effect from 24.01.2017, filed a writ petition before this Court impugning the said decision/Resolution of the Society.

2.1 The learned Single Bench of this Court dismissed W.P.(C) No.12463/2017 vide judgment dated 19.03.2021, with liberty to the petitioner/employee to avail of the statutory alternative remedy under Section 69(2)(d) of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act 1969.

2.2 The said judgment came to be challenged by the petitioner/employee in W.A.