Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958

The appellants, who were Assistant Educational Officers (AEO) in the Kerala Education Service, were ordered by a 1977 government letter to be transferred back to the lower post of High School Assistant (HSA) after six years of service. They challenged the reversion as violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution…

The petitioners, originally appointed in the Rural Development Department of Kerala, later transferred to the Co-operative Department after applying through the Kerala Public Service Commission. When a promotion list was prepared for the Rural Development Department, a dispute arose whether the petitioners retained a l…

The case concerned the seniority of T. Raju, a candidate for the post of Excise Inspector, who claimed he should be advised from the 1992 rank list and receive seniority based on the next advisable vacancy. The Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958, Rule 27(c) stipulates that seniority for appointments made …

The Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) prepared a main rank list of 177 candidates and a supplementary list of 62 reserved‑category candidates for Sub‑Engineer posts in the State Electricity Board. After 20 candidates (including open‑category and reserved‑category) failed to join, the KPSC refused to advise appoin…

In the Kerala Department of Agriculture, Soil Survey Assistants were temporarily promoted to Assistant Director (Soil Survey) from 1964 to 1980 because a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) had not been constituted. When the DPC was finally formed in 1984, it regularised those temporary promotions by granting them r…

The case concerned employees of Kerala's Directorate of Health Services (DHS) who, under a government policy to abolish a dual control system, exercised an option to be absorbed into the Directorate of Medical Education (DME). The dispute was whether this option amounted to a transfer on request, invoking the proviso t…

The Kerala Public Service Commission advertised 12 Boat Lascar vacancies requiring a current Lascar's licence, but the appellant, holding a higher Syrang's licence, applied and was placed first in the ranked list and advised for appointment. While the appointment was pending, two applications were filed before the Kera…