Muralee Krishna, J.

The appellant Kerala State Co-operative Rubber Marketing Federation Ltd (‘KSCRMF’, in short) filed these writ appeals against the common judgment dated 17.08.2023 passed by the learned single judge in W.P.(C)No.7114 of 2022 and W.P.(C)No.5624 of 2017, respectively. For convenience, the documents are referred to in this judgment as they were referred to in W.P.(C) No.5624 of 2017 and the parties are referred to in this judgment as they are referred to in the corresponding writ appeal No. W.A.No.2198 of 2023, unless otherwise stated.

2. The petitioner in the writ petitions, who is arrayed as the 1^st respondent in these writ appeals, was an employee of the appellant who joined service on 18.12.1989 as a Factory Manager. While working in the Crumb Rubber Factory of the appellant at Chennappady Kanjirappilly, disciplinary action was initiated against the 1^st respondent on certain charges, and on 28.11.2008 he was suspende