IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 15.12.2025

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.S. RAMESH

and

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE A.D.MARIA CLETE

Rev. Appl.(MD) No. 99 of 2025

in

W.A.(MD) No.1848 of 2024

And

C.M.P.No.15092 of 2024

1.Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation

(Madurai) Ltd.,

Rep., by its Managing Director,

Bye Pass Road,

Madurai – 625 010.

2.The General Manager,

Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation

(Madurai) Ltd., Madurai region,

Madurai – 625 010. … Petitioners

Vs.

1.S.Amir Ibrahim

S/o.A.Syed Sikkandhar Ali,

No.9, Kajeemar Street,

Main Road,

Madurai – 625 001.

2.R.Rajendran (Died)

3.M.N.Ravindran,

S/o.G.Nartarajan, No.57, Anjal Nagar 1^st Street, Shanthi Nagar – via, Madurai – 625 018.

4.State of Tamil Nadu, Rep., by its Secretary to Government, Transport Department and Chairman of Board of Director of State Transport Undertaking, Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009.

5.The Administrator, The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation Pension Fund Trust, Thiruvallur House, Pallavan Salai, Chennai – 600 002. ... Respondents PRAYER: Review filed under Section 114 read with Order XLVII Rule 1 & 2 of Code of Civil Procedure to review the order passed in W.A.(MD) No.1848 of 2024 on the file of this Court dated 06.12.2024 and pass such further or other orders as this Court deem fit and proper in the circumstances of the case and thus render justice. For Petitioner : Mr.M.Ajmal Khan Additional Advocate General Asst by Mr.SC.Herold Singh For Respondents : Mr.A.K.Thangavelu for R1 & R3 Mr.J.K.Jayaseelan Government Advocate for R4

O R D E R

(Delivered by M.S.Ramesh, J and Dr. A.D. Maria Clete, J)

Heard.

2.This Review Application has been filed by the appellants in W.A.

(MD) No.1848 of 2024, seeking review of the order dated 06.12.2024 made in W.A.(MD) No.1848 of 2024 and C.M.P.(MD) No.15092 of 2024.

3.The grievance is that the Writ Appeal was in fact heard and disposed of on 11.11.2024, but the Registry failed to prepare and upload the fair order. Further, in the order dated 06.12.2024, while this Court declared that the order in respect of the deceased second petitioner stood recalled and dismissed, it omitted to mention anything regarding the status of the 1st and 3rd petitioners either in the Writ Appeal or in the Writ Petition, resulting in uncertainty in the operative portion of the judgment.

4. The writ petitioners in W.P.(MD) No.13750 of 2016 were employees of the second respondent–Transport Corporation appointed between 1980 and 1982, who sought the benefits of G.O.Ms.No.146, Transport (C) Department, dated 30.11.2015, conferring Selection Grade Superintendent pay on completion of 24 years’ service.

5. The learned Single Judge, by order dated 16.11.2023, allowed the writ petition, holding that the departmental letter No.7593/C1/2016 dated 03.05.2017 could not override the G.O. issued under Article 166 of the Constitution. Aggrieved, the Corporation preferred W.A.(MD) No.1848 of 2024, which was heard and dismissed on merits on 11.11.2024, the judgment being dictated in open court.

6. After the pronouncement, the Registry failed to prepare and upload the fair order, and consequently, the parties could not obtain a certified copy. This omission was confirmed by internal verification and the fair order was placed before (one of us) on 27.10.2025.

7. The law is well settled that once an order is dictated and pronounced in open court, it attains judicial finality; non-preparation or non-

uploading by the ministerial staff cannot obliterate its existence.

8. The wife of second writ petitioner R.Vasantha later filed C.M.P.

(MD) No.15092 of 2024 on 21.10.2024 to implead her as legal heir of R.Rajendran Late R. Rajendran, who had died on 04.01.2020 during the pendency of the writ petition. That petition was disposed of by a separate order on 06.12.2024.

9. In the said order, this Court observed that the Writ Appeal (W.A.

No.1848/2024) had been disposed of on 11.11.2024 and proceeded to hold that the appeal, being filed against a deceased person, was not maintainable,