JUDGMENT

Muralee Krishna, J.

The applicant in O.A.No.338 of 2020 on the file of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal, Additional Bench at Ernakulam (the ‘Tribunal’, in short), filed this original petition, invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India , challenging Ext.P4 order dated 19.05.2025 passed by the Tribunal in that original application.

2. Going by the averments in the original application, the petitioner applied for the post of Lecturer in Kannada on UGC Scale in Collegiate Education Department (Category No. 581/2012) as per the notification issued by the 3^rd respondent, and after written test and interview, the 3^rd respondent issued Annexure A1 rank list which came into effect as on 17.03.2017 and currency of rank list came to an end on 16.03.2020. In Annexure A1 rank list, the name of the petitioner stood as No.1 in the supplementary list as under the quota Ezhava/Thiyya/Billava. To date, nobody has got advice from that list. As per the reservation, the next appointment is to be from the Ezhava quota, and hence the petitioner has to get the advice from the 3^rd respondent. But, the 3^rd respondent has issued an appointmen