The court found that once gratuity was paid as per judicial directives, the appeal concerning further claims was unnecessary.

JUDGMENT

P.V.BALAKRISHNAN,J This intra-court appeal is filed by the 4^th respondent in W.P.

(C)No.14162 of 2019, challenging the judgment dated 25.03.2021, passed in it.

2. W.P.(C)No.14162 of 2019 was disposed of by the learned Single Judge by passing the following judgment;

''All these petitions pertain to payment of gratuity. Learned counsel for the parties are ad-idem that the Full Bench judgment of this Court followed by learned Single Bench of this Court is applicable to the controversy in issue. Writ petitions are allowed in terms of the directions contained in the Full Bench judgment of this Court in Chandrasekharan Nair G. & Others v. Kerala State Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank Ltd. & Others (2017 (4) KLT

276).''

3. Today, when this matter was taken up for consideration, the learned counsel for the appellant, Adv. Gilbert George Correya, submitted that gratuity has already been paid to respondents 1 to

3, in terms of the directions of the Full Bench judgment in Chandrasekharan Nair G.'s case. We will take note that no writ appeal has been preferred by any of the writ petitioners challenging the judgment passed by the learned Single Judge.

Ergo, in the light of the submission made by the learned counsel for the appellant, we are of the view that nothing survives for consideration in this writ appeal, and the same is closed as infructuous.

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