Kochi: The Administrative Tribunal rejected Ciza Thomas’ plea to stay the government order removing him from the post of Senior Joint Director in the Directorate of Technical Education. The Administrative Tribunal also ordered that Ciza Thomas should be posted in Thiruvananthapuram in case of immediate retirement.
The Acting Vice Chancellor of APJ Abdul Kalam University of Technology, Dr. Ciza Thomas, was removed from the position of Senior Joint Director in the Directorate of Technical Education yesterday.
Administrative Tribunal Justice PV Asha dismissed Ciza Thomas’ plea to stay the government order. Ciza Thomas was not replaced by the government. In the context of Ciza Thomas’s retirement on the 31st of this month, an interim order was also made to appoint him somewhere in Thiruvananthapuram. Ciza Thomas’s move to continue in the Directorate of Technical Education till his retirement has been set back by the order of the Administrative Tribunal.