A full bench of the High Court of Kerala in 2014 issued a judgment setting aside an illegal order of termination of my post as the Principal of an aided-college, and directed the respondent to pay me a compensation of Rs 50 lacs. After my filing a caveat, the respondent filed an SLP; I appeared as caveator, before a two-judge bench which without granting the SLP leave of appeal, and without staying the impugned judgment, ordered to issue notice, and I filed counter affidavit. In the meantime, one of the two judges retired, and then once the matter was posted before a bench that consisted of the second judge. But later, it was posted before a different bench which, after recording that “we do not find any ground to interfere with the impugned judgment,” reduced the amount of compensation from 50 lacs to 10 lacs, without granting the SLP leave of appeal and even without any argument, in a totally biased manner. Can it be legally justified? I filed a Review Petition, but it was dismissed. Is there scope for filing a curative petition? (of course, there are other grounds as well to prove bias and gross injustice). Could you kindly advice me?
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