KDRB moves SC against HC annulment of its power of appointment to Guruvayur Devaswom

The Kerala Devaswom Recruitment Board (KDRB) has moved the Supreme Court successful entreaty against a State High Court determination to onslaught down provisions which empowered it to name candidates to assorted posts successful the Guruvayur Devaswom and government-aided acquisition institutions.

The KDRB has sought a enactment of the High Court determination portion submitting that its functions were constricted to affairs of recruitment and did not intervene successful the spiritual duties concerning temples.

The High Court had directed that proceedings relating to the assignment oregon enactment of candidates to posts indispensable beryllium done arsenic per the Guruvayur Devaswom Act, 1978. The High Court absorption had travel connected an entreaty filed by the Guruvayur Devaswom Employees Union Congress and others, challenging the applicable provisions of the KDRB Act.

The tribunal had quashed the notification issued by the KDRB inviting applications for assorted posts and added that the KDRB should not successful aboriginal behaviour immoderate enactment proceedings for appointments to these posts. Appointments already made by the committee would stay undisturbed.

In addition, the managing committee of Guruvayur Devaswom was directed to initiate the assignment process afresh, portion a peculiar committee would supervise and power the full process. The committee headed by retired justice of the Kerala High Court, Justice P.N. Ravindran, would person a one-year tenure.