K M CHERIAN Vs. K V GEORGE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Appellant is aggrieved by his suspension on 16.04.2002 and subsequent removal on 26.10.2002 from the position of Chairman, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences established, owned and run by the Madras Medical Mission (MMM), a registered society open only to the members of the Orthodox Syrian Church and which presently has hundred and thirty five members. The patron of MMM is the Catholics of the East, and it's President the Bishop of that Church at Madras.

(2.) The MMM which was registered on 12.01.1982 was initially dependent upon donations, but after it established an Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (ICVD) at Chennai in 1987 with the appellant, Dr.K.M.Cherian, a reputed Cardio Thoracic Surgeon, as it's lifetime Director, it was able to generate significant surpluses over the years which together with borrowed funds enabled it to acquire assets worth about Rs.55.00 crores by the year 2000. The total receipts of ICVD from 1987-88 to 2000-01 was Rs.316.12 crores. The appellant claims the lion's share of the credit for the success of MMM. According to him his professional skills, international reputation, his ability to win friends and influence people and his commitment and constant striving for MMM enabled it to reach it's present level of prestige and affluence.

(3.) MMM has also established an Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Women's Health despite the appellant's opposition. A Transplant Center was added later.