JUDGMENT

Grievance of the petitioners in the Contempt petition is on account of the non compliance of the direction of this Court whereby the writ petition was allowed in terms of the directions and the observations contained in the Full Bench judgment of this Court titled as Chandrasekharan Nair v. Kerala State Co- operative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank Ltd. (2017 (4) KLT 276 (F.B.).

2. Learned counsel representing the petitioners submits that as per the counter affidavit filed by the respondents the liability of the gratuity of the petitioners by the employer has been fixed as Rs.3,50,000/- (Rupees three lakh fifty thousand only) though the petitioners are entitled to as per Rule 59(iii) of the Co-operative Societies Rules, 1969 and also in terms of the observations recorded in paragraph No.5 of the judgment. There is a rampant and blatant defiance to the direction of this Court and therefore the respondents are liable to be proceeded under the provisions of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.

3. On the other hand learned counsel representing the Bank emphatically relied upon the averments made in paragraph Nos. 6, 7 & 8 of the counter affidavit saying that both the petiti