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Kerala High Court<\/div>\n
C.G.John vs State Of Kerala on 3 August, 2005<\/div>\n
       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWA No. 1623 of 2003\n\n\n1. C.G.JOHN, C.K.P. BUNGALOW, CHENGAMANDU, \n                      ...  Petitioner \n\n                        Vs\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE     \n                       ...       Respondent\n2. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONS,\n3. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, KOLLAM\n4. THE DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL OFFICER,\n5. P.RADHA, SREE BHAVAN, ARAMPUNA, ELAMPAL\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.GIRI                              \n\n                For Respondent  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER                      \nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.A.ABDUL GAFOOR                \nThe Hon'ble MRS. Justice K.HEMA                         \n\n Dated :     03\/08\/2005\n O R D E R\n<\/pre>\n
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          \tThese   writ  appeals  arise  from  the  common
\n          judgment in O.P.No.5686\/01 and  O.P.No.31697\/02.\n<\/p>\n
          \t2.  The petitioner  in  O.P.No.5686\/01  claimed
\n          the  post  of  Headmistress  of  Mannam  Memorial  High
\n          School, Vilakkudy, Punalur, as she was overlooked.  The
\n          manager appointed the petitioner in O.P.No.31697\/02  in
\n          that post.    There were several litigations concerning
\n          the matter including disciplinary  action  against  the
\n          petitioner in  O.P.NO.5686\/01.    Finally,  based  on a
\n          direction from this court, the Manager the appellant in
\n          W.A.No.2157\/03 considered her claim and  passed  Ext.P9
\n          marked  in  O.P.No.5686\/01 to the effect that, as there
\n          was  disciplinary  action  and  criminal  case  pending
\n          against  her,  she  could  not  have  been appointed as
\n          Headmistress.  Consequently, Ext.P10 order  was  issued
\n          by the Manager appointing an enquiry officer to hold an
\n          enquiry against her.  Earlier she had been placed under
\n          suspension and was later reinstated.\n<\/p>\n
          \t3.   During  the  pendency of the said original
\n          petition, her claim for the post  of  Headmistress  had
\n          been   finally   considered   and  adjudicated  by  the
\n          Government  as  is  revealed  by  Ext.P11   marked   in
\n          O.P.No.31697\/02.  Government, in that order, upheld the
\n          claim of  the petitioner in O.P.No.5686\/01.  That order
\n          was challenged by the appointee  –  the  petitioner  in
\n          O.P.No.31697\/02.   Therefore,  in the light of Ext.P11,
\n          there arises no question of considering  the  challenge
\n          against Ext.P9  marked  in  O.P.No.5686\/01.  It is also
\n          now agreed by the  counsel  on  either  side  that  the
\n          disciplinary  action  had  never been proceeded against
\n          the petitioner  in  O.P.No.5686\/01  and  that  she  had
\n          retired by now.  Therefore, there arises no question of
\n          considering the challenge against Ext.P10 as well.\n<\/p>\n
          \t4.    In   the   meantime,  Ext.P13  marked  in
\n          O.P.No.5686\/01  was  also  passed   by   the   District
\n          Educational Officer, Punalur, based on a direction from
\n          this  court,  regularising  the period during which she
\n          had been kept  under  suspension  and  treating  it  as
\n          eligible leave.  Though O.P.No.5686\/01 was not formally
\n          amended  incorporating  the  challenge  against Ext.P13
\n          order, it was produced and her grievance against it had
\n          been  voiced  in  an   affidavit   filed   along   with
\n          I.A.No.8121\/03.   That  much  is  sufficient as regards
\n          O.P.No.5686\/01 because, the main challenge was  against
\n          Ext.P11  marked  in  O.P.No.31697\/02 at the instance of
\n          the appointee for the post of Headmaster, the appellant
\n          in W.A.No.1623\/03 and 2051\/03.\n<\/p>\n
          \t5.  The bone of contention is who  among  these
\n          two  should  have  been  considered  for the vacancy of
\n          Headmaster, which  arose  on  retirement  of  the  then
\n          incumbent.     The   claim   of   the   petitioner   in
\n          O.P.No.5686\/01 was  resisted  mainly  based  on  Ext.P8
\n          marked  in  O.P.No.31697\/02  which is, according to the
\n          appointee as well as the Manager, a consent obtained as
\n          provided in the Note under rule  44(1)  Chapter  XIV  A
\n          K.E.R.    to  appoint  a  junior  incumbent  viz.,  the
\n          petitioner  in  O.P.No.31697\/02   (the   appellant   in
\n          W.A.Nos.1623\/03  and 2051\/03) So everything depend upon
\n          the legal efficacy of Ext.P8.\n<\/p>\n
          \t6.     Admittedly,    the     petitioner     in
\n          O.P.No.5686\/01  was  the  seniormost  incumbent  in the
\n          school when the vacancy arose on 1.5.1996.  There is no
\n          contention that she had not been qualified.  Rule 44(1)
\n          Chapter XIV A of the Kerala Education Rules obliges the
\n          Manager,  while  making  appointment  to  the  post  of
\n          Headmaster,  to  follow the seniority of the incumbents
\n          concerned, ordinarily.  Of course, going  by  the  Note
\n          under Sub-rule (1) of Rule 44, the Manager can prefer a
\n          junior   incumbent   provided,   the  senior  incumbent
\n          consents for that.  Therefore, appointment of a  junior
\n          incumbent can be made only after obtaining consent from
\n          the seniormost  eligible  incumbent.   The Note further
\n          provides that “such consent shall have the approval  of
\n          the Educational  Officer concerned”.  Thus consent is a
\n          pre-requisite to  prefer  a  junior  incumbent.    Such
\n          consent shall  be  an efficacious one.  It shall always
\n          have the  approval.    Then  alone  it   will   be   an
\n          efficacious consent.    Therefore, such approval to the
\n          consent is a pre-requisite, so far as  the  Manager  is
\n          concerned, to  overlook  the  seniority.  Ext.P8 is the
\n          consent  in  this  case,  whereby  the  petitioner   in
\n          O.P.No.5686\/01  had  allegedly  renounced her claim for
\n          appointment as Headmistress.  But no  one  has  a  case
\n          before us that any approval to the said alleged consent
\n          dated 29.6.1996 had been obtained until the junior hand
\n          had  been  appointed  as Headmaster as per Ext.P5 dated
\n          2.9.1996 marked in O.P.No.31697\/02.  When  the  statute
\n          requires  that  there  shall be a such consent and that
\n          consent shall have  the  approval  of  the  Educational
\n          Officer,  necessarily,  it  is  a pre-requisite for the
\n          Manager to prefer a junior incumbent.   When  a  junior
\n          incumbent   was   thus  preferred  for  appointment  as
\n          Headmaster as per Ext.P5 dated  2.9.1996,  approval  to
\n          such consent  had  not  been  obtained.  Even on today,
\n          there is no approval.  Therefore,  the  appointment  of
\n          the  petitioner  in  O.P.No.31697\/02,  the appellant in
\n          W.A.No.1623\/03 and in W.A.No.2051\/03 as headmaster  was
\n          not in  order.    In  such circumstances, the challenge
\n          against Ext.P11 at his instance was rightly turned down
\n          by the learned single Judge.  Necessarily, the impugned
\n          judgment has to be sustained.\n<\/p>\n
          \t7.  The learned single Judge also  had  quashed
\n          Ext.P13  order  produced  in O.P.No.5686\/01 whereby the
\n          period of suspension of the petitioner therein had been
\n          regularised as eligible  leave.    When  there  was  no
\n          disciplinary  action  finding her guilty and when there
\n          was no permission granted by the Educational Officer to
\n          keep the incumbent under  suspension  beyond  15  days,
\n          necessarily,  the District Educational Officer, Punalur
\n          was not justified in treating the suspension period  as
\n          eligible leave.     Rule  67(8)  Chapter  XIV-A  K.E.R.
\n          provides that if the Educational Officer “is  satisfied
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\n          that  there  was no valid ground for the suspension, he
\n          may direct the manager to reinstate  the  teacher  with
\n          effect from  the date of suspension …..”.  Therefore,
\n          interference with Ext.P13 as per the impugned  judgment
\n          is also to be sustained.\n<\/p>\n
          \t8.  We need not consider the contention of  the
\n          Manager,  the  appellant  in W.A.No.1623\/03, that there
\n          was no formal challenge against Ext.P13  because,  none
\n          of the rights of appellant is adversely affected by it.
\n          He  was  on  any  count,  going by Rule 67(8) liable to
\n          reinstate the teacher.  He did not do so.   The  salary
\n          paid  to  the  teacher  on  account  of  his refusal to
\n          reinstate the teacher is to be recouped from him as per
\n          law.\n<\/p>\n
          \t9.  Anyhow, as the petitioner in O.P.No.5686\/01
\n          is getting the benefit with  retrospective  effect,  we
\n          find that the award of costs shall be set aside.  We do
\n          so.\n<\/p>\n
          \tThe  appeals are accordingly dismissed, subject
\n          to the order as to costs as mentioned above.\n<\/p>\n
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Kerala High Court C.G.John vs State Of Kerala on 3 August, 2005 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WA No. 1623 of 2003 1. C.G.JOHN, C.K.P. BUNGALOW, CHENGAMANDU, … Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY THE … Respondent 2. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONS, 3. 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