CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 1 2025:KER:25288 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE D. K. SINGH TUESDAY, THE 25TH DAY OF MARCH 2025 / 4TH CHAITHRA, 1947 CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 AGAINST THE JUDGMENT DATED 04.10.2023 IN WP(C) NO.2196 OF 2023 OF HIGH COURT OF KERALA PETITIONER/PETITIONER: DR. RAJASHREE AJITH, AGED 56 YEARS WIFE OF MR. P. S. AJITHKUMAR, RESIDING AT SHRENI HILLS, PANICKERS LANE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, PIN - 695010 BY ADVS. P.K.VIJAYAMOHANAN AKHIL SUSEENDRAN JOSEPH KODIANTHARA (SR.) RESPONDENT/1ST RESPONDENT: 1 MRS. SARADA MURALEEDHARAN IAS, (AGE, NAME OF FATHER AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS NOT KNOWN TO THE PETITIONER) THE CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, PIN - 695001 2 DR. K. VASUKI IAS, (AGE, NAME OF FATHER AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS NOT KNOWN TO THE PETITIONER) SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF KERALA, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, PIN - 695001 3 MR. MOHAMMED SHAFIQ IAS, (AGE, NAME OF FATHER AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS NOT CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 2 2025:KER:25288 KNOWN TO THE PETITIONER) MANAGING DIRECTOR, KERALA TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION LIMITED (KTDFC), TRANS TOWERS, VAZHUTHACAUD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, PIN - 695014 MARY BEENA JOSEPH-SR.GP, DEEPU THANKAN-SC THIS CONTEMPT OF COURT CASE (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 25.03.2025, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 3 2025:KER:25288 JUDGMENT The present Contempt Petition has been filed alleging wilful disobedience and non-compliance of the judgment dated 04.10.2023 passed in W.P.(C) No.2196/2023. This Court while allowing the Writ Petition filed by the petitioner directed the respondents to repatriate the petitioner to the post of Managing Director or any other equivalent post in the Kerala Transport Development Finance Corporation Limited (KTDFC) on and from the termination of her deputation to the Kerala Institute of Tourism and Travel Studies (KITTS) and to disburse the equivalent pay and benefits to the petitioner from the date of joining as ordered. 2. The affidavit of compliance of the petitioner has been filed by the Chief Secretary of the State Government as well as the Transport Secretary, respondents 1 and 2 in the Contempt Petition. The petitioner was given a posting as Managing Director of the KTDFC with effect from 28.11.2023. After joining, the petitioner resigned on 11.06.2024. For the said period, during which the petitioner served as the Managing Director of KTDFC CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 4 2025:KER:25288 the Government has already issued an order for the payment of salary to the petitioner and directed KTDFC to disburse the amount, and the said amount has already been paid. For the waiting period, i.e. from 06.08.2022 to 28.11.2023, the salary of the petitioner has been sanctioned and the KTDFC has been directed to make the payment. 3. Sri.S.Deepu Thankan, learned Standing Counsel for the KTDFC submits that in compliance with the order issued by the Government, the amount of salary for the period from 06.08.2022 to 28.11.2023 shall be disbursed to the petitioner, within a period of one month from today. Considering the said undertaking of the KTDFC, nothing survives in this Contempt Petition, which is hereby closed. This Court orders that the salary for the period from 06.08.2022 to 28.11.2023, as undertaken above, shall be paid to the petitioner within a period of one month. Sd/-D. K. SINGH JUDGE lsn CON.CASE(C) NO. 2649 OF 2024 5 2025:KER:25288 APPENDIX OF CON.CASE(C) 2649/2024 PETITIONER ANNEXURES Annexure I THE CERTIFIED COPY OF THE JUDGMENT DATED 04.10.2023 IN THE WRIT PETITION 2196/2023 Annexure II A TRUE COPY OF THE G.O. (MS) NO. 530/2023/TRANS. DATED 28.11.2023. Annexure III THE TRUE COPY OF THE RESOLUTION IN AGENDA ITEM NO. 8/186/2024 DATED 26.03.2024