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Electricity Minister K Krishnankutty said that KESMA will not be invoked against the striking officers of KSEB.
The electricity board has informed that going by the assessment of 2021-22, the board is expecting a profit of over Rs 1,400 cr.
Alleging that Kumar had misused the Board's vehicles while he was the additional private secretary to former power minister M M Mani, the notice directed him to remit Rs 6,72,560 for the unauthorised use of the vehicles.
A division bench of justices C S Dias and Basant Balaji made the reference while hearing petitions questioning the strike by the Officers' Association.
The two groups have been at loggerheads with each other for the past many months.
The new development came barely a day after Power Minister K Krishnankutty had initiated reconciliatory talks between the KSEB and Officers' Association.
At the conciliatory talks held by Power Minister K Krishnankutty in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, there was consensus on the need for a quick resolution of the seemingly intractable Board-officers rift.
The union members took out a march on the streets of the Kerala capital on Tuesday morning before they proceeded to the Vydyuthi Bhavan.
Even though a meeting was earlier planned between the power minister and the officers' association leaders on Monday to sort their issues, it is unlikely to take place as the minister is in Palakkad for an all-party peace initiative in connection with the recent twin political murders there.
The minister has convened a meeting on Monday with the Left-affiliated associations, even as the CMD took a swipe at the unions, saying their stir, braving the sun and heavy downpour, would not yield any result.
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