Judicial intervention is warranted to ensure timely consideration of employee grievances in public employment contexts.

J U D G M E N T

The petitioner, who is working as a daily wage Sweeper in Kerala State Co-operative Bank Ltd, Thrissur Branch as per Order No.P&E/PD/II/CS/489/2005-2006 dated 23.4.2005, is before this Court in this writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India , seeking a writ of mandamus commanding the second respondent to regularise her service. The petitioner has also sought for various other reliefs including a writ of mandamus commanding the second respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on Exts.P4 and P5 within a time limit to be fixed by this Court.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned counsel for respondents 1 and 2 and also the learned Government Pleader for respondents 3 and 4.

3. During the course of arguments, the learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner has submitted a representation dated 13.9.2017 before the Government highlighting her grievance on the issue of regularisation and the said representation has already been forwarded by the Government to the Managing Director of the Bank, the second respondent herein, as evident from Ext.P7 receipt dated

18.9.2017.

4. The learned counsel for respondents 1 and 2 would submit that the said representation dated 13.9.2017 is now pending consideration before the second respondent .

In such circumstances, without going into the merits of the rival contentions, this writ petition is disposed of by directing the second respondent to consider and pass appropriate orders on the representation dated 13.9.2017 of the petitioner referred to in Ext.P7 with notice to the petitioner, as expeditiously as possible, at any rate, within a period of one month from the date of receipt a certified copy of this judgment.

It is made clear that this Court has not expressed anything on the merits of the claim made by the petitioner in the aforesaid representation and it is for the second respondent to take a decision, strictly in accordance with law.