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The petitioner is an employee of Manjeri PCC Marketing Co-operative Society Limited. He was appointed as Junior Clerk in the Society on 04.01.1994 and was granted first Higher Grade after completion of ten years on 26.06.2004. Due to financial issues, the Society decided to retrench its employees, except four employees. The retrenchment was to be effected after obtaining consent of the employees concerned.

2. The Managing Committee of the Society on

29.11.2011 decided to dispose of property of the Society so as to pay retrenchment compensation to its employees. Though the petitioner did not express willingness to be retrenched, his name was also included in the retrenchment plan. However, the petitioner was removed from service.

3. The petitioner complained to the 4^th respondent. The 4^th respondent directed respondents 1 to 3 to consider the question of reinstatement of the petitioner. When the petitioner approached this Court, the petitioner was relegated to the remedy under Section 69 of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act , 1969 or to raise an industrial dispute.

4. The petitioner filed ARC No.29/2014 in the Co-operative Arbitration Court (Nort