Article 227 supervisory jurisdiction limited to quashing Tribunal orders; substantive reliefs impermissible without explaining delay.

The petitioner, who is the applicant in O.A.No.2297 of 2013 on the file of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal at Thiruvananthapuram, has filed this original petition, invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India , challenging Ext.P1 order dated 23.01.2014 of the Tribunal in that original application, which was one filed invoking the provisions under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 , seeking an order directing the respondents to sanction 208 days leave availed by the applicant for treatment, as leave without allowance on medical ground; to quash Annexure A6 order dated 26.07.2012 issued by the 1^st respondent State declining the request of the applicant to sanction leave without allowance on medical ground; and an order to revise the pension and service benefits sanctioned to the applicant, reckoning the period of leave as leave without allowance on medical ground.

2. The Tribunal, by Ext.P1 order dated 23.01.2014, dismissed O.A.No.2297 of 2013 on a finding that the claim of the applicant is highly stale and he is guilty of delay, laches and acquiescence. In the result, the original application was dismissed as not maintainable. 3. In this original petition filed on 17.02.2026, invoking the supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of theConstitution of India, the petitioner-applicant is seeking an order to treat the leave without allowance taken by the petitioner during the year 1990-92 for 208 days as leave without allowance on medical ground, as done in the case of Smt.P.J. Mary, Supervisor, Social Welfare Department, vide Annexure A4 Government order dated 10.09.2002. Other consequential reliefs are also sought for in this original petition. 4. The reliefs sought for in this original petition are beyond the scope of supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of theConstitution of India. In an original petition filed under Article 227 of the , the relief that could be sought for by the applicant in an original application filed before the Kerala Administrative Tribunal, is an order to quash the impugned order of the Tribunal and to allow that original application as prayed for. We also notice that no explanation whatsoever is offered in the original petition explaining the delay in challenging the order dated 23.01.2014 of the Tribunal.

5. The petitioner, who appeared in person, would submit that he may be permitted to withdraw this original petition, without prejudice to his right to file a fresh original petition challenging the order dated 23.01.2014 of the Tribunal in O.A.No.2297 of 2013, with appropriate pleadings and reliefs.

Based on the aforesaid submission made by the petitioner, who appeared in person, this original petition is dismissed as withdrawn, without prejudice to the aforesaid right of the petitioner.