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2026 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 13780

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
MR. ANIL K.NARENDRAN, MURALEE KRISHNA S., JJ
A.R.BALAGOPALAN – Appellant
Versus
STATE OF KERALA – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: SHRI.SAJEEV KUMAR K.GOPAL
For the Respondents: SRI.B.UNNIKRISHNA KAIMAL, SR.G.P, SMT.R.RANJANIE

Table of Content
1. exclusion from direct payment system (dps) (Para 1 , 2)
2. writ petition reliefs sought (Para 3)
3. prior judgments affecting dps claims (Para 4 , 5)
4. arguments presented by both parties (Para 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10)
5. legal background on employment and dps (Para 11 , 12 , 13 , 14)
6. court's analysis and judgment on employment claims (Para 15 , 16)

JUDGMENT

Muralee Krishna, J.

The petitioners in W.P.(C)No.14538 of 2023 filed this writ appeal under Section 5 (i) of the Kerala High Court Act , 1958, challenging the judgment dated 21.05.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge in that writ petition.

2. Going by the averments in the writ petition, the appellants are working under the Hospital attached to the 3rd respondent College. The Government, while introducing the Direct Payment System (‘DPS’ for short) in the College as early as in the year 2000 and during staff fixation in 2002, certain employees, including the appellants working under the Hospital, were exempted from the purview of the DPS. 16 staff members in the Hospital were included in the DPS. This exclusion of the appellants was challenged before this Court, which resulted in Exts.P5 Judgment dated 03.03.2005 in

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