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B.Selvaraj v. The Secretary to Government

WP/8982/2021 · 2025-01-23

Vivek Kumar Singh

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Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS Dated: 23/1/2025 C O R A M THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE VIVEK KUMAR SINGH Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 1 B.Selvaraj S/o.K.Bramaiah HC 27826 Prohibition Enforcement Wing Triplicane Chennai - 5 2 Binoji John S/o.John Cheriyan HC 27863 G-5 Secretariat Colony P.S Greater Chennai Police 3 P.Thangaraj S/o.Palanisamy HC 1054 Kottur P.S Coimbatore District 4 B.Loganathan S/o.Bakthavatchalam HC 27854 C-1 Flower Bazaar Traffic P.S Greater Chennai police 5 A.Ronald Regan S/o.J.Albert HC 517 Perur P.S Coimbatore District 6 R.Mathan Kumar S/o.Rajendran HC 746 Armed Reserve Erode District 7 C.Senthil S/o.K.G.Chandran HC 2884 BhavaniSagar P.S Erode District 8 M.Ponnuswamy Page No:1/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.V.Maran HC 708 KarungalPalayam P.S Erode District 9 P.Senthil Kumar S/o.Perumal HC 725 Ammapettai (HWP) 10 .Loganathan.P S/o. Palaniyappan HC 739 Bhavani PS Erode District 11 P.Sivashankaran S/o.Ponnusamy HC 747 City Crime Branch Erode District 12 S.Rathinasamy S/o.Selvarasu HC 263 Malayampalayam P. S Erode District 13 K.N.Manikandan S/o.K.Nagarajan HC 2603 North Traffic P.S Erode District 14 K.SudhisK.Nair S/o.K.K.Krishnankutty HC 1646 SB CID Organised Crime Investigation Unit Erode District 15 .Jacob Thomas P S/o.Chinnaiyapillai HC 43627 E-1 Mylapore P.S Greater Chennai Police 16 K.C.Saravanan S/o.Chinnaraj HC 27836 F5 Choolaimedu P.S Greater Chennai Police 17 B.V.Rajesh S/o.K.B.Balan HC 27843 Core Cell CID Chennai 18 G.Senthil Page No:2/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.C.Gunalan HC 27824 Core Cell CID Chennai 19 S.Mohan S/o.D.Sadhasivam HC 36499 S-16 Perumbakkam P.S Greater Chennai Police 20 N.Sankar S/o. Nemaleyan HC 36726 S-15 Selaiyur Traffic Greater Chennai Police 21 K.Subramani S/o.Kathirvel HC 36724 S-1 Mount P.S Greater Chennai Police 22 S.Sekar S/o.B.Subbaiyan HC 1109 Musiri P.S Trichy District 23 I. Muruganantham S/o.Inbaraju HC 1145 E4 Thuraiyur P.S Trichy District 24 T.Selladurai S/o.Thangaraj Gr-I PC 1141 B3 Thuvakudi P.S Trichy District 25 E.Guru S/o.M.Elangovan HC 1108 Thiruverumbur PEW Trichy District 26 M.FradrickArokyaVasanth S/o..A.Moses HC 1086 ManaparaiF1 P.S Trichy District 27 S.Krishna Kumar S/o.K.Selvarajan HC 27855 S-14 Peerkankaranai P.S Greater Chennai Page No:3/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 Police 28 J.Prabhu S/o.Janakiraman HC 1209 Puthur P.S Cuddalore District 29 K.Palanivel S/o.Kandasamy HC 1788 Deevattipatti P. S Salem District 30 S.Sridharan S/o.C.K.Subramaniam HC 2357 B-2 R. S.puram P.S Coimbatore City 31 V.Saravana Kumar S/o.Veluswamy HC 2073 SBCID Coimbatore City 32 T.Neelakandan S/o.N.ThanuvanThambi HC 2535 CCS Nagercoil Kanyakumari District 33 V.Sreejith S/o.P.C. Velayudhan HC 1820 D-2 Selvapuram PS Coimbatore City 34 P.Ramesh S/o.K.Periyasamy HC 906 KarungalPalayam P.S Erode District 35 D.Hariraj S/o.K.Duraisamy HC 1628 Avinasi P.S. Tiruppur District 36 P.Gopalsamy S/o.Perumalsamy HC 914 Cantonment Crime P.S Trichy City Page No:4/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 37 K.Manikandan S/o.A.Kannann HC 2944 PEW Trichy City 38 G.Krishnamoorthy S/o.S.GhanaSambantham HC 2952 K.K. Nagar P.S Trichy City 39 .Karthikeyan.J S/o..M.Jayapal HC 2943 Srirangam Traffic P.S Trichy City 40 M.Rajesh S/o.K.G.Mohan HC 2942 Traffic North Investigation P.S Trichy City 41 K.Sekar S/o.Kandasami HC 2941 PEW Trichy City 42 M.Vengatachalam S/o.Munusamy HC 127 Mathikonpalayam P.S Dharmapuri District 43 N.Thiyagu S/o.A.M.Nachimuthu HC 250 Special Task Force Sathyamangalam Erode District 44 M.Prabakaran S/o.A.Muthusamy HC 129 Adhiyamankottai P.S Dharmapuri District 45 A.Elangovan S/o.K.Ammasi HC 1239 Salem Railway P.S Chennai Railway District 46 S.Saravanan Page No:5/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.S.Sampath HC 595 Armed Reserve Thiruvannamalai 47 S.SathishBabu S/o. P.Shanmugam HC 201 New Town PS Cuddalore District 48 S.Gunaseelan S/o.Selvaraj HC 466 OCIU Villupuram Range Cuddalore District 49 K.Jinesh S/o.N.Kumar HC 1570 Udumalpet P.S Tiruppur District 50 R.Senthil S/o.P.Ravi HC 36518 J-11 Kannagi Nagar P.S Greater Chennai Police 51 R.Naveen Kumar S/o.P.Ramalingam HC 43832 N-1 Royapuram Traffic Greater Chennai Police 52 N.Saravanan S/o.Nagarajan HC 36502 CCB Cyber Cell Vepery 53 B.Sankar S/o.N.Balu HC 28350 F-2 Egmore P.S Greater Chennai Police 54 K.Velu S/o.A.Kuppusamy HC 36516 T-6 AVadi Traffic Greater Chennai Police 55 D.Narayanan S/o.T.R.Duraiyappa HC 32470 J- 9 ThuraipakkamTraffic Greater ChennaiPolice 56 T.Senthil Kumar Page No:6/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.N.thangamani HC 36508 Civil Supplies CID Chennai 57 M.Aravinth S/o.MeenakshiSundaram HC 36522 M.C.R Greater Chennai Police 58 E.Senthil Kumar S/o.R.Elangovan HC 707 Kanai P.S Villupuram District 59 D.Nagarajan S/o.Dhandapani HC 51957 Museum P.S Greater Chennai Police 60 K.Perumal S/o.K.P.Krishnan HC 31830 R-2 Kodambakkam P.S Greater Chennai Police 61 B.Sriram S/o.T.R.Balasubramanian HC 36506 T-2 Ambattur Estate P.S Greater Chennai Police 62 M.Murali S/o. C.Munirathinam HC 2636 Sipcot PS Vellore District 63 B.George S/o.Babu HAV 2946 TNPA Academy Chennai 64 N.Bharathidasan S/o.Natarajan HC 1700 Kottur P.S Coimbatore District 65 R.Sugumar S/o.K.Raju HC 3776 Central Traffic P.S Madurai City Page No:7/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 66 M.Stalin S/o.M.Masilamani HC 267 B1 Town Central P.S Udhagamandalam The Nilgirs District 67 K.Gopal S/o.A.Kannayiram HC 36608 S-13 Chrompet P.S Greater Chennai Police 68 J.Sudhakar S/o.M.Jayaraman HC 36514 H-5 New Washermanpet Traffic Greater Chennai Police 69 Y.G.Vargees S/o.Y.George HC 662 Karamadai P.S Coimbatore District 70 N.Palani S/o.C.Natarajan HC 2573 Armed Reserve 71 A.Kamal S/o. Abdul Hafeez HC 2574 Bagayam P. S Vellore 72 S.SottuAfsar S/o.Sottu Ismail Gr-I PC 2725 Armour Work Shop Armed Reserve Vellore District 73 S.Gnanavelu S/o.P.Shanmugam HC 2600 Armour Work Shop Armed Reserve Vellore District 74 S.Prabhu S/o.D.Srinivasan HC 2816 Armed Reserve MT Vellore Page No:8/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 75 S.ArulKumaran S/o.P.Sankaran HC 2009 District SPL Branch Vellore District 76 S.Anandaraj S/o.K.C.seetharaman HC 2581 Special Intelligence Unit SBCID Vellore District 77 V.Rajendran S/o.V.Venkatesan HC 2551 Special Intelligence Unit SBCID Vellore District 78 K.Muthu Kumar S/o.G.Kaliappan HC 32890 K-6 T. PChatram P.S Greater Chennai Police 79 H. SasthaPrakash S/o. G.HariharaSubramaniam HC 27815 E-6 Royapettah GH P.S Greater Chennai Police 80 K.Rajesh S/o.K.K.Krishnan HC 27869 D-1 Triplicane Traffic Greater Chennai Police 81 G.Murali S/o.C.Gopal HC 36510 S11 Tambaram Traffic P.S Greater Chennai Police 82 S.Saravana Kumar S/o.Sukumaran HC 27805 N-3 Muthialpet Traffic Greater Chennai Poilce 83 K.Bharathi S/o.A.Karunanidhi HC 48508 J-8 Neelankarai P.S Greater Chennai Police Page No:9/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 84 M.Raji S/o. Manikkam Gr-I PC 1244 Ulundurpetai High way Patrol KallakurichiDistrict 85 D.Senthil Kumar S/o.P.Dhanapal HC 1947 SIU SBCIDCuddalore District Vellore Range 86 S.SundaraMoorthy S/o. Sanmugam HC 1249 Brammadesam P. S Villupuram District 87 U.Venkat S/o.L.Udayakumar HC 27834 G5 Secretariat Colony P.S Greater Chennai Police 88 M.Palpandi S/o.R.Muthaih HC 366 Avaniyapuram Traffic P.S Madurai City 89 A.Murugan S/o..G.Annamalai HC 2273 Kandamangalam P.S Villupuram District 90 N.Devendran S/o.M.S.Natarajan HC 1218 Tiruchengode Town P.S Namakkal District 91 M.Thiyagarajan S/o.M.Mani HC 549 Town Control Kancheepuram District 92 P.Muniyandi S/o.Paramasivam HC 834 G-9 Perunagar P.S Chengalpattu District 93 A. Suresh Page No:10/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.K.Arumugam HC 458 G-3 Melmaruvathur P.S Chengalpattu District 94 V.Ragunathan S/o.Varathan HC 558 B-5 Walajabath P.S Kancheepuram District 95 M. Sathish Kumar S/o. K.Mathiayalagan HC 607 C- 2 Sunguvarchatram P.S Kancheepuram District 96 S.Selvam S/o.Samandaran HC 918 D-3 Palur P.S Chengalpattu District 97 P.Jagadeesan S/o.M.Pachiyappan HC 577 D1 Chengalpet Town P.S Chengalpattu District 98 V.Manikandan S/o.K.Vasudevan HC 754 ChengalpetTaluk P.S Chengalpattu District 99 T.Ragupathy S/o.Thanigaimalai HC 414 D-3 Palur P. S Chengalpatu District 100 N.Kuppan S/o.K.Narayanan HC 36914 P-3 Vysarpadi P.S Greater Chennai Police 101 B.Balamurugan S/o.K.Bojarajan HC 3717 Theppakulam Traffic P.S Madurai City 102 S.Indirapandian S/o.K.p.Subramani HC 536 MangalamP. S Thiruvannamalai District Page No:11/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 103 S.Chinnasamy S/o.M.Subbiyan HC 692 M.T Armed Reserve Coimbatore District 104 E.Gowthaman S/o. K.Eswaran HC 1823 SIU SBCIB Trichy 105 Christopher S/o.V.Rabal HC 40360 G-4 IMH P.S Greater Chennai Police 106 P.Manikandan S/o. K.Piramanayagam HC 941 Railway Police Tirunelveli Trichy Railway Police District 107 V.Mahendran S/o. Valanadu HC 268 E-3 Annanagar P.S Madurai City 108 M. Palanivel S/o.Muthusamy HC 1540 Sankarapuram P.S. KallakurichiDistrict 109 V.Mayandi S/o.Veeranan HC 245 Thallakulam Traffic P.S Madurai City 110 A.Pradeep Alex S/o. Alex Velankanni HC 771 C4 Somangalam P.S Kancheepuram 111 V.Manikandan S/o.K.Vijayakumar Gr-I PC 27813 H- 6 R.K Nagar P.S Greater Chennai Police Page No:12/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 112 S.Naveen S/o.C.Sundarraj HC 1578 Uthiyur P. S Tiruppur District 113 M.Sathish Kumar S/o. M.C.Manickam HC 1524 Vellakovil High Way Patrol Tiruppur District 114 S.Muthsamy S/o.K.ShelampanaGounder HC 1525 Vellakovil P.S Tiruppur district 115 P.Kamaraj S/o. Palaniyappan HC 1645 Avinashi P.S Tiruppur district 116 N.Mahalingam S/o. Madhaiyan HC 1613 High Way Patrol - 11 Avinashi Tiruppur District 117 M.Rajesh S/o.M.R.Madhavan HC 2549 O.C.I.U. Vellore District 118 A.Velusamy S/o.Abimannan HC 446 Harur P.S Dharmapuri District 119 V.Rajkumar S/o.M.Venkatachalam HC 319 Armed Reserve Coimbatore District 120 P.Prabhu S/o.Palanisamy HC 716 West P.S Coimbatore District 121 P.A.JohnDesouza Page No:13/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.P.T.Antony HC 47259 S- 11 Tambaram P.S Greater Chennai Police 122 D.Arun S/o.V.Devanathan HC 433 Armed Reserve CuddaloreDistlrict 123 D.Mohanraj S/o.Deenadhayalan HC 27837 G-4 IMPH P.S Greater Chennai Police 124 A.S.Satish S/o.A.J.Subbaiah HC 28352 T-10 Thirumullaivoyal P.S Greater Chennai Police 125 J.Loganathan S/o.Jaganathan HC 36496 K-10 Koyambedu P.S Greater Chennai Police 126 K.SreeHari S/o.M.S.Kumar HC 32466 R-8 Vadapalani P.S Greater Chennai Police 127 S.Yuvaraj S/o.R.Sampath HC 36495 S-4 Nandambakkam P.S Greater Chennai Police 128 S.Kamaraj S/o.Sundaramurthy HC 36513 C.C.I.W Chennai 129 C.SureshBabu S/o.C.Chandrasekaran HC 529 Anaimalai P.S Coimbatore District 130 D.Vivekanandan Page No:14/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 S/o.P.Devaraj HC 2072 D-2 Selvapuram P.S Coimbatore District 131 T.Bakiyaraj S/o.K.Thiyagarajan HC 1580 ElavanasurKottai P.S Kallakurichi District ... Petitioners Vs 1 The Secretary to Government Home (Police II) Department Fort St George Chennai 9 2 The Director General of Poli ce Tamil Nadu Dr.Radha Krishnan Salai Mylapore Chennai 4. ... Respondents PRAYER : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of certiorarified mandamus to call for the records of the second respondent in connection with the impugned order passed in RC.No.539017/Rect.I (2)/2020 dated 3/12/2020 and quash the same and direct the respondents to revise and grant seniority to the petitioners along with those who have been appointed in the first batch of Grade – II PCs selected and recruited by a common recruitment for the year 2001 – 03 based on the respective marks secured by them in the final examination conducted at the end of Police training in the recruit School. Page No:15/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 For petitioners ... Mr.Venkataramani for Mr.M.Muthappan For respondents ... Mr.L.S.M.Hasan Fizal Additional Government Pleader for R.R.1 and 2. Mr.R.U.Dinesh Rajkumar Standing Counsel for R.3 - - - - - O R D E R This writ petition has been filed to quash the order dated 3/12/2020 passed by the second respondent in connection with the impugned order passed in RC.No.539017/Rect.I (2)/2020 and direct the respondents to revise and grant seniority to the petitioners along with those who have been appointed in the first batch of Grade – II PCs selected and recruited by a common recruitment for the year 2001 – 03 based on the respective marks secured by them in the final examination conducted at the end of Police training in the recruit School. 2. Brief facts which are necessary for the disposal of the writ petition are as follows:- Page No:16/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 The Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board made an advertisement for recruitment and appointment to the post of Gr-II PCs (Men) during the year 2001 – 02 to the tune of 3500 vacancies. When the process of selection was undergoing, Recruitment Board initiated another recruitment process for selection and appointment to the post of Gr-II PCs to the tune of 5000 Gr-II PCs in the beginning of the year 2003, thereby, they have totally taken steps for recruiting as many as 8500 Gr-II PCs. 3. In the second advertisement, it was specifically notified that those who have applied earlier with regard to the earlier advertisement made in the year 2001 need not apply for the second time. Hence, it was a common recruitment through both the advertisements. The process of selection was conducted simultaneously. The petitioners have participated in the process of selection for the years 2001 – 2002 and 2002 – 2003. The advertisement stated above was initiated by the Uniformed Services Recruitment Board. The petitioners have undergone physical efficiency test, written test by a common test and all of them have come out successful in the process of selection, but were not issued appointment orders. 4. The petitioners herein were made to undergone an another medical Page No:17/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 examination in June and July 2004 and they were given appointment orders and sent them to Police training School and they commenced their training on 10/7/2005. The fact that appointment orders were issued only in June 2005 for the petitioners who were selected in the process of selection during the year 2002 – 2003. 5. When the process of selection is one and the same and if there is delay in the appointment due to administrative reasons, the petitioners cannot be denied seniority along with those who have been appointed to service in the first batch. The petitioners having successfully completed their training and thereafter, posted to serve in TSP Battalion and on completion of four years of service in the battalion, they were transferred to District Armed Reserve and after serving for a minimum period of two years, now most of them are in the verge of being transferred to Taluk Police establishment. They have also been upgraded as Gr-I PCs automatically on completion of ten years of service, but the fact remains that though they were brought in A list, but their seniority in the cadre of Gr-II PCs is yet to be decided and the seniority list is yet to be published by the respondents so far. 6. Hence, the petitioners made a representation to the respondents as Page No:18/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 early as in the year 2018. As there was no response, the petitioners have filed W.P.No.3156 of 2019 and vide, order, dated 7/2/2020, this Court had directed the respondents to consider the representation of the petitioners dated 26/3/2018 and take a decision on its own merit and in accordance with law within a period of twelve weeks from the date of the said order. But the second respondent had rejected the claim of the petitioners by Proceeding dated 3/12/2020. Being aggrieved, petitioners have filed the instant writ petition praying for the relief as stated therein. 7. The learned Additional Government Pleader appearing for the respondents would submit that the process of selection is one and the same and there is no discrepancy found in the issuance of appointment orders issued to the writ petitioners. The Government in G.O.Ms.No.1190, Home (Pol.III) Department, dated 10/12/2002 have already ordered that wait listed candidates shall be sent for Police verification subject to the condition that candidates included in the waiting list should be clearly informed at the time of medical examination and Police verification itself that their names are included in the waiting list only against the vacancies caused due to failure of candidates of main list in the medical exam and police verification and causing of medical exam and Police verification to the candidates included in Page No:19/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 the waiting list would not confer any right of appointment on them. 8. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned Additional Government Pleader for the respondents and perused the materials available on record. 9. This Court has already held in more than couple of cases in favour of the persons, similarly placed like the petitioners. The hesitation of the respondents to revise the petitioners seniority along with those who have appointed in the first batch of Grade – II PCs selected is unwarranted. In few cases, request of revising seniority of a similarly placed person was rejected by the appointing authority, wherein this Court has categorically held that delay in appointing the petitioner has resulted from the mistake of fact committed by the appointing authority. I am also inclined to adopt the very same approach. As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, petitioners were not at all at fault. Therefore, for the fault committed by the respondents, petitioners cannot be made to suffer. Hence, the petitioners are entitled for revision of their seniority on par with those who were appointed in the first batch of Grade – II PCs selected and recruited by a common recruitment for the year 2001 – 2003. Page No:20/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 10. Accordingly, this writ petition is allowed and the respondents are directed to fix the petitioners seniority along with those who have been appointed in the first batch of Grade – II PCs selected and recruited by a common recruitment for the year 2001 – 2003 within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. It is made clear that the petitioners will not be entitled to any arrears of pay the said period. No costs. 23/1/2025 mvs. Index: yes/No Neutral Citation: Yes/No VIVEK KUMAR SINGH,J mvs. To 1 The Secretary to Government Home (Police II) Department Fort St George Chennai 9 2 The Director General of Police Tamil Nadu Dr.Radha Krishnan Salai Mylapore Chennai 2 Page No:21/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Writ Petition No.8982 of 2021 W.P.No.8982 of 2021 23/1/2025 Page No:22/22 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis