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1. THE PERSON

1. THE PETITIONER a citizen of India by birth and domicile, was born and brought up in a middle class family in a village in the Malabar coast of peninsular India.

a. He had his early EDUCATION in the schools and colleges nearby his village.

i) He matriculated from the Madras University in the first class as the best outgoing student of Mahe de La Bourdonnais college, Mahe, South India, his Alma Mater.

2. He has a first class bachelor's degree in sciences, the only first class in life sciences from his college in his batch and
3. He was selected for studying medicine in government medical colleges in Kerala based on the marks he had scored in the above examination.

iv) All his ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS were kind courtesy his teachers in the government schools and colleges where he studied; he never had any private tuition.

b. the petitioner does not believe in preaching and is A VERY PRIVATE PERSON who strictly minds his own business.

i ) He is an unbeliever and has no god nor religious faith.

ii) He is not a member of any organization, political, religious or other wise, and has no leanings towards any groups, political parties or ideologies.

iii) A self-contained person, the petitioner was managing every thing, including the household chores, on his own without ever bothering anyone else for anything. And in spite of his poor circumstances has never incurredⁱ any debt - he had always lived within his means.

iv) He has no family, was never married, and that way, there is no one whose prospects in life are dependant on the fortunes of the petitioner.

v) The corollary is that there is no one to stand by him through thick and thin. The petitioner had faced every one of the terrible ordealsii of his eventful life all alone - he perforce had to find solace in himself.
vi) The petitioner left his ancestral home for good, way back in 1975, and ever since, has been living alone. His physical as well as mental estrangement and alienation with his relatives has been complete and irreversible.
vii) If at all any one, on the pretext of being a “relative” or “friend” of the petitioner, is taking an interest in his affairs at this stage in his life, the motives of such persons could be anything but the welfare of the petitioner.

2. An old student of Medical College, Trivandrum, the petitioner has an M.B.,B.S., degree from the Kerala University and registration with the Travancore - Cochin medical council.

a. The petitioner had a ten year stintⁱⁱ in the Indian Army as a short service commissioned officer in the Army Medical Corps.

i) His first five years in the rank of a Captain was followed by another five years in the rank of Major.

ii) Seven out of the ten years in the Indian Army was in field areas and of those seven years he had spent more than one year in high altitude areas.

iii) During the remaining three years, that is his peace posting, he was in charge of a fifteen bed section hospital of the indian army in a remote village in central India as the sole officer, medical or otherwise.

iv) While in the army he had performed his duties as a clinician as well and an officer of the Indian Army to the entire satisfaction of his superiors.

b. Upon release from the army on successful completion of the contractual period, the petitioner joined duty as a member of the teaching faculty in the medical education service of the Govt. of Kerala.

i) The petitioner had been given an appointment as Lecturer in Physiology in the Medical Education Service of the Government of Kerala in 1983 after being duly selected for the above post by the Kerala Public Service Commission and had availed joining time till his release from the army.

ii) The petitioner, a noviceⁱⁱⁱ at teaching, spent an enjoyable and most rewarding period of two years teaching medical Physiology, to the M.B.,B.S., degree students in T. D. Medical College.

iii) Edged^iv on by his apparent success as a teacher and with a view of doing better justice to his students, the petitioner took the entrance examination for post graduate courses in the medical colleges in Kerala, and based on his performance in the above examination he managed to get selection for the M.D., degree course in Physiology. The petitioner moved to govt. medical college Trivandrum as post graduate student cum lecturer in 1995.

iv) As a trainee lecturer in the Department of Physiology of medical college Trivandrum for doing his MD, the petitioner had some remarkable successes to begin with.

v) The petitioner's confidential report for the year 1995 by the head of the department of physiology of Thiruvananthapuram medical college was a flattering one. Therein the reporting officer commended the petitioner for his exemplary conduct and punctuality, praised his extraordinary proficiency in understanding new and difficult matters, his resourcefulness and originality in giving suggestions and pursuing them constructively and the petitioner's ability to get systematically to the root of the problems and for his consistently sound and well balanced judgment. Above all, the Head of the Department specifically mentioned the petitioner's keen interest in improving the standard of the practical classes.

vi) Thus the petitioner was on course for obtaining his MD degree with the Head of the Department of Physiology due to be his examiner in a couple of years' time. And an MD in medical physiology would have guaranteed him immediate promotion as assistant professor and put him in line for further promotions. However this was not to be.

vii) In the vicious atmosphere in medical college Trivandrum, within no time, everything turned topsy-turvy^v; the petitioner could never appear for the MD examination and he was still a lecturer when he retired from Kerala Government service on superannuation as mandatory at the age of 55 years on April 30, 2005.

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