{"id":9609,"date":"2007-11-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-radhakrishnan-unnithan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-november-2007"},"modified":"2018-06-14T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:01:16","slug":"m-radhakrishnan-unnithan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-november-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-radhakrishnan-unnithan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-november-2007","title":{"rendered":"M.Radhakrishnan Unnithan vs State Of Kerala on 12 November, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court<\/div>\n
M.Radhakrishnan Unnithan vs State Of Kerala on 12 November, 2007<\/div>\n
       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nOP No. 3325 of 2003(U)\n\n\n1. M.RADHAKRISHNAN UNNITHAN,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,\n\n3. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION,\n\n4. ASSISTANT EDUCATIONAL OFFICER, KONDOTTY\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.P.V.MOHANAN\n\n                For Respondent  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice S.SIRI JAGAN\n\n Dated :12\/11\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                         S.SIRI JAGAN, J.\n                     =======================\n                      O.P. No. 3325 of 2003 (U)\n                     =======================\n\n                Dated this the 12th day of November, 2007\n\n\n\n\n                              JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n
     The petitioner is a Headmaster in a UP School.         He is<\/p>\n
challenging Exts.P2, P5, P6 and P8 orders wherein the petitioner’s<\/p>\n
claim for Scale of Pay of Headmaster with effect from 11.10.84<\/p>\n
was rejected.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
     2.    The petitioner started service as UP School Assistant<\/p>\n
with   effect from 8.12.1980.       The post of Headmaster of the<\/p>\n
School fell vacant on 11.10.84. The petitioner was appointed on<\/p>\n
11.10.84 as Headmaster on probation as there were no other<\/p>\n
qualified hands in the School eligible for promotion as<\/p>\n
Headmaster. The petitioner completed 5 years of service as a<\/p>\n
Graduate Teacher and he was appointed as Graduate Headmaster<\/p>\n
on 8.1.86. Scale of pay was sanctioned, which was later objected<\/p>\n
to on the ground that the petitioner had not completed 15 years<\/p>\n
of service and the excess amount paid as salary was refunded.<\/p>\n
O.P. No. 3325\/2003              -2-<\/span><\/p>\n
By order dated 1.12.89 the petitioner was reverted as teacher-<\/p>\n
in-charge with effect from 8.5.87 for want of test qualification.<\/p>\n
The same was also endorsed in his service book.   There was an<\/p>\n
order granting exemption from test qualification which was in<\/p>\n
force in 1988. That exemption was annulled by a Division Bench<\/p>\n
of this Court in Pankajakshi and ors. v. George (1987 (2)<\/p>\n
KLT Page 723). The appeal filed by the Headmaster before the<\/p>\n
Supreme Court was dismissed with the following observation.<\/p>\n
            “We, however direct the State Government
\n       not to revert those Headmasters who have not
\n       passed the Account Examination yet and who are
\n       now holding the post of Headmaster only they get
\n       one more chance to appear at the Accounts
\n       Examination       to   be   held by  the   Kerala
\n       Administration.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      3.  Subsequently by Order dated 8.5.87 the Government<\/p>\n
directed that all teachers promoted as Headmasters be reverted.<\/p>\n
However the petitioner was not reverted.    In May 1989, the<\/p>\n
petitioner passed account test. Subsequently, he was promoted<\/p>\n
as Graduate Headmaster on 1.1.90, which was approved. He<\/p>\n
completed 15 years of service on 1.6.96 and he was granted<\/p>\n
scale of pay of Headmaster from 1.6.96.         The petitioner<\/p>\n
O.P. No. 3325\/2003                 -3-<\/span><\/p>\n
thereafter claimed scale of pay of Headmaster with effect from<\/p>\n
11.10.84, on which date the       petitioner was earlier promoted as<\/p>\n
Headmaster. This was rejected by Ext. P2 order holding that the<\/p>\n
benefit is available only to those Headmasters who were still<\/p>\n
holding the post of Headmaster prior to 15.9.1988. Petitioner’s<\/p>\n
appeal was rejected by Ext. P5 as well as Exts. P6 and P8. It is in<\/p>\n
the above circumstances, that petitioner has approached this<\/p>\n
Court, seeking the following reliefs:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
    “i) To call for the records leading to Exhibits P-2, P-5, P-6
\n       and P-8 and set aside the same by issuing a Writ of
\n       Certiorari or other appropriate writ.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
   ii) To declare that the petitioner is entitled to get the scale
\n       of pay attached to the post of Headmaster of the
\n       Primary School fixed with effect from 11.10.1984.”<\/p>\n
      3.   I heard the learned Govt. Pleader also. Now it is not<\/p>\n
disputed before me that the petitioner would be entitled to claim<\/p>\n
Headmaster’s scale of pay with effect from 11.10.84, only if the<\/p>\n
petitioner was       validly    holding the post of Headmaster<\/p>\n
immediately prior to 15.9.88. Admittedly by order dated 1.12.89<\/p>\n
the petitioner was reverted as teacher-in-charge with effect from<\/p>\n
O.P. No. 3325\/2003              -4-<\/span><\/p>\n
8.5.87.   Therefore, the petitioner ceased to be a Headmaster<\/p>\n
from 8.5.87 onwards. That being so, the petitioner would not be<\/p>\n
entitled to claim headmaster’s scale of pay on the ground that<\/p>\n
the petitioner was holding the post of headmaster immediately<\/p>\n
prior to 15.9.88   and in accordance with the Supreme Court<\/p>\n
Judgment he had passed the account test. The petitioner relies<\/p>\n
on certain Govt. Orders in respect of            similarly placed<\/p>\n
Headmasters.     But I find that in all those cases those<\/p>\n
Headmasters had successfully challenged their reversion as<\/p>\n
teacher-in-charge, which the petitioner did not. The petitioner<\/p>\n
contends that he had passed account test and was subsequently<\/p>\n
promoted as Headmaster with effect from 1.9.96 and therefore it<\/p>\n
was not necessary for the petitioner to challenge the      earlier<\/p>\n
order of reversion. I do not agree. If the petitioner wants to get<\/p>\n
the benefits on the ground that petitioner was continuing as a<\/p>\n
Headmaster immediately prior to 15.9.88 the petitioner should<\/p>\n
show that he had successfully challenged the order dated<\/p>\n
1.12.89, by which he was reverted as teacher-in-charge with<\/p>\n
effect from 8.5.87. Admittedly petitioner did not challenge that<\/p>\n
order at all. Therefore,  his prior service as Headmaster based<\/p>\n
O.P. No. 3325\/2003               -5-<\/span><\/p>\n
on the promotion on 11.10.84 becomes obliterated and he ceases<\/p>\n
to derive any benefits therefrom.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
      4.    Of course the petitioner would try to contend that in<\/p>\n
view of the explanation to Rule 49 of Chapter XIV A of KER the<\/p>\n
word “Headmaster” includes teacher-in-charge and therefore<\/p>\n
even    teacher-in-charge is entitled to the benefit available to<\/p>\n
headmaster. This also I am unable to countenance.         Rule 49<\/p>\n
specifically says that the word ‘Headmaster’ includes teacher-in-<\/p>\n
charge also for the purpose of that rule.  That would necessarily<\/p>\n
mean that for other purposes the word “Headmaster” cannot<\/p>\n
include teacher-in-charge unless the same is so expressly made<\/p>\n
clear in the other rules. In the absence of any provision in the<\/p>\n
KER to the effect that for the present purpose the term<\/p>\n
Headmaster would include teacher-in-charge, the petitioner who<\/p>\n
is only a teacher-in-charge cannot claim the benefit applicable to<\/p>\n
a headmaster.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
      5.    The result of the above discussion is that the order<\/p>\n
dated 1.12.89 reverting the petitioner as teacher-in-charge with<\/p>\n
O.P. No. 3325\/2003                -6-<\/span><\/p>\n
effect from 8.5.87 stands and      hence, the petitioner loses his<\/p>\n
right to claim Headmaster’s scale of pay      on the basis of his<\/p>\n
earlier promotion as Headmaster. In the above circumstances,<\/p>\n
the writ petition is without merit and the same is dismissed.<\/p>\n
                                              Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n
                                          S.SIRI JAGAN,
\n                                            JUDGE<\/p>\n
jp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court M.Radhakrishnan Unnithan vs State Of Kerala on 12 November, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM OP No. 3325 of 2003(U) 1. M.RADHAKRISHNAN UNNITHAN, … Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY … Respondent 2. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, 3. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, 4. 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