{"id":98229,"date":"2009-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-assistant-education-oofficer-vs-k-n-lakshmi-on-23-november-2009"},"modified":"2014-01-31T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T07:17:29","slug":"the-assistant-education-oofficer-vs-k-n-lakshmi-on-23-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-assistant-education-oofficer-vs-k-n-lakshmi-on-23-november-2009","title":{"rendered":"The Assistant Education Oofficer vs K.N. Lakshmi on 23 November, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kerala High Court<\/div>\n
The Assistant Education Oofficer vs K.N. Lakshmi on 23 November, 2009<\/div>\n
       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWA.No. 1920 of 2008()\n\n\n1. THE ASSISTANT EDUCATION OOFFICER,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n2. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR (EDUCATION),\n3. THE STATE OF KERALA, REP. BY THE SPECIAL\n4. THE HEAD MASTER, GOVERNMENT\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. K.N. LAKSHMI, W\/O. V.R.GOPALAN,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n                For Petitioner  :GOVERNMENT PLEADER\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.K.K.CHANDRAN PILLAI\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.BALAKRISHNAN NAIR\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.BHAVADASAN\n\n Dated :23\/11\/2009\n\n O R D E R\n    K. BALAKRISHNAN NAIR & P. BHAVADASAN, JJ.\n\n                  ------------------------------\n                     W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n                  ------------------------------\n\n           Dated this, the 23rd day of November, 2009\n\n\n                          JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n
Balakrishnan Nair, J.\n<\/p>\n
           The respondents in the Writ Petition are the<\/p>\n
appellants.   The respondent herein was the writ petitioner.<\/p>\n
The brief facts of the case are the following:<\/p>\n
           The respondent was appointed as a P.D.Teacher<\/p>\n
from 13.6.1975 to 31.3.1976. Thereafter, she was appointed<\/p>\n
on a regular basis on 1.6.1976.          She was an untrained<\/p>\n
P.D.Teacher.     Therefore, she was deputed for Teachers’<\/p>\n
Training Course from 1.2.1977 to 31.12.1978. She passed the<\/p>\n
Teachers’ Training Course on 30.8.1979. When her salary was<\/p>\n
fixed, the apprentice period, i.e. from 13.6.1975 to 31.3.1976<\/p>\n
was also reckoned.      The same was against Ext.P2 circular<\/p>\n
issued by the Government on 11.7.1984. This was realised<\/p>\n
only in 2001. Immediately, she was served with Ext.P3 show<\/p>\n
cause notice dated 3.11.2001 proposing to re-fix her salary<\/p>\n
excluding her apprentice service period from 13.6.1975 to<\/p>\n
W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n<\/p>\n
                              – 2 –\n<\/p>\n
31.3.1976. Thereafter, by Ext.P4 order dated 7.9.2002, the<\/p>\n
proposal under Ext.P3 was affirmed. In the light of Exts.P3 and<\/p>\n
P4, the Assistant Educational Officer, Arakulam, re-fixed her<\/p>\n
salary by Ext.P5 proceedings dated 5.12.2002. Aggrieved, the<\/p>\n
respondent\/petitioner      preferred    Exts.P6     and      P7<\/p>\n
representations       before    the   Government.         Those<\/p>\n
representations were rejected by Ext.P10 and she has been<\/p>\n
saddled with a liability of Rs.1,19,765\/- as per Exts.P11 and<\/p>\n
P12. The respondent herein filed the Writ Petition challenging<\/p>\n
Exts.P4, P5, P10, P11 and P12.    The Government resisted the<\/p>\n
reliefs sought, relying on Ext.P2.     But, the learned Single<\/p>\n
Judge, overruled the contention of the appellants herein and<\/p>\n
allowed the Writ Petition, relying on Ext.P1, which is a<\/p>\n
Government Order dealing with the benefits to be granted to<\/p>\n
untrained teachers, i.e. those P.D. Teachers who joined service<\/p>\n
without T.T.C. qualification and acquired the said qualification<\/p>\n
while in service. Feeling aggrieved by the said judgment, this<\/p>\n
appeal is preferred.\n<\/p>\n
W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n<\/p>\n
                             – 3 –\n<\/p>\n
            2.    We heard the learned Government Pleader<\/p>\n
Smt.R.Bindu and Sri.K.K.Chandran Pillai, who appeared for the<\/p>\n
respondent.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
            3. We notice that Ext.P1 Government Order, which<\/p>\n
deals with reckoning untrained service to P.D.Teachers, has no<\/p>\n
application to the facts of this case.    The point in dispute<\/p>\n
between the parties was whether the period of apprenticeship<\/p>\n
from 13.6.1975 to 31.5.1976 could be reckoned for various<\/p>\n
service benefits. By virtue of Ext.P2, it cannot be reckoned.<\/p>\n
The finding in the judgment under appeal that the respondent<\/p>\n
was not an appointee under half a million jobs programme is<\/p>\n
untenable, since, during 1975-1976, the apprentices were<\/p>\n
appointed in Government service only under the said scheme.<\/p>\n
Therefore, her service as an apprentice has been wrongly<\/p>\n
reckoned. So, the State is entitled to correct the mistake.<\/p>\n
            4. Now, the next point to be considered is, whether<\/p>\n
the State should be allowed to recover the excess salary paid<\/p>\n
by mistake to the respondent. She submits that she was in no<\/p>\n
W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n<\/p>\n
                                 – 4 –\n<\/p>\n
way responsible for the wrong fixation. She was a low paid<\/p>\n
employee and has expended the amounts received by her,<\/p>\n
thinking that the amounts received were legitimately due to<\/p>\n
her. Now, at this distance of time, if she is required to repay<\/p>\n
the amounts received in excess, she will be put to irreparable<\/p>\n
injury and hardship. In support of her submission, the learned<\/p>\n
counsel for the respondent relied on the decision of the Apex<\/p>\n
Court in Registrar of Co-operative Societies v. Israil<\/p>\n
Khan,<\/a> [2009 (4) KLT SN 61 (Case No.53) SC], wherein it was<\/p>\n
held as follows:\n<\/p>\n
                 “…Such relief, restraining recovery back of<\/p>\n
          excess payment is granted by courts not because<\/p>\n
          of any right in the employees, but in equity, in<\/p>\n
          exercise of judicial discretion, to relieve the<\/p>\n
          employees, from the hardship that will be caused<\/p>\n
          if recovery is implemented.          A Government<\/p>\n
          servant, particularly one in the lower rungs of<\/p>\n
          service would spend whatever emoluments he<\/p>\n
          received for the upkeep of his family.        If he<\/p>\n
          receives an excess payment for a long period, he<\/p>\n
          would spend it genuinely believing that he is<\/p>\n
          entitled to   it.   As any subsequent action to<\/p>\n
          recover the excess payment will cause undue<\/p>\n
          hardship to him, relief is granted in that behalf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n<\/p>\n
                               – 5 –\n<\/p>\n
          But where the employee had knowledge that the<\/p>\n
          payment received was in excess of what was due<\/p>\n
          or wrongly paid, or where the error is detected<\/p>\n
          or corrected within a short time of wrong<\/p>\n
          payment, Courts will not grant relief against<\/p>\n
          recovery.    The matter being in the realm of<\/p>\n
          judicial discretion, courts may on the facts and<\/p>\n
          circumstances of any particular case refuse to<\/p>\n
          grant such relief    against recovery.   What is<\/p>\n
          important is recovery of excess payments from<\/p>\n
          employees is refused only where the excess<\/p>\n
          payment is made by the employer by applying a<\/p>\n
          wrong method or principle for calculating the<\/p>\n
          pay\/allowance, or on a particular interpretation<\/p>\n
          of the applicable rules which is subsequently<\/p>\n
          found to be erroneous.     But where the excess<\/p>\n
          payment     is  made    as  a   result   of  any<\/p>\n
          misrepresentation, fraud or collusion, courts will<\/p>\n
          not use their discretion to deny the right to<\/p>\n
          recover the excess payment.”\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
            5. We notice that the respondent is a member of<\/p>\n
the Scheduled Caste. She has already retired from service<\/p>\n
during the pendency of the Writ Petition. If she is called<\/p>\n
upon to pay the entire excess amount paid from 1979<\/p>\n
onwards, the same will cause very serious hardship to her.<\/p>\n
W.A.No.1920 of 2008\n<\/p>\n
                              – 6 –\n<\/p>\n
But, she cannot escape from the liability to refund the excess<\/p>\n
amount received from the date of Ext.P3. i.e. 3.11.2001.<\/p>\n
            6.   In the result, the judgment under appeal is<\/p>\n
reversed. The impugned orders are restored. The re-fixation<\/p>\n
of the salary of the respondent is also upheld. But, it is made<\/p>\n
clear that the excess amount paid to her up to 3.11.2001<\/p>\n
shall not be recovered from her. Any excess amount paid<\/p>\n
thereafter to the respondent       can be recovered by the<\/p>\n
appellants.\n<\/p>\n
            The Writ Appeal is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n
                                              Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n
                                    K. Balakrishnan Nair,
\n                                             Judge.\n<\/p>\n
                                              Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n
                                        P. Bhavadasan,
\n                                             Judge.\n<\/p>\n
DK.\n<\/p>\n
                      (True copy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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