Mahua Das v. The State of Assam and 3 Ors

PageoNo.#o1/2 GAHC010165332024 ooooooo ooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooTHEoGAUHATIoHIGHoCOURTo (HIGHoCOURToOFoASSAM,oNAGALAND,oMIZORAMoANDoARUNACHALoPRADESH)o CaseoNo.o:oWP(C)/4179/2024o MAHUAoDASo ASSTT.oHEADoMISTRESS,o NETAJIoBIDYAMANDIRoHIGHoSCHOOL,o DHEKIAJULI,o W/O-oSRIoASHIMoDAS,o R/O-oWARDoNO.o10,oDHEKIAJULI,o P.O.-oDHEKIAJULI,o DIST.-oSONITPUR,oASSAM,o PIN-o789110. VERSUSo THEoSTATEoOFoASSAMoANDo3oORSo TOoBEoREPRESENTEDoBYoTHEoCOMMISSIONERoANDoSECRETARYoTOoTHEo GOVERNMENToOFoASSAM,o SECONDARYoEDUCATIONoDEPARTMENT,o JANATAoBHAWANo(ASSAMoSECRETARIAToCOMPLEX),o DISPUR,oGUWAHATI-o781006. 2:THEoDIRECTORoOFoSECONDARYoEDUCATION oASSAMoKAHILIPARA oGUWAHATI-o781019. 3:THEoINSPECTORoOFoSCHOOLS oSONITPURoDISTRICToCIRCLE oDISTRICT-oSONITPURoASSAM. 4:AMALoCHANDRAoBISWAoSARMA oS/O-oSRIoJOGENDRAoCHANDRAoBISWAoSARMA oR/O-oWARDoNO.-o oDHEKIAJULI oP.O.-oDHEKIAJULI oDISTRICT-oSONITPUR oASSAMoPIN-o789110o Page No.# 2/2 For the petitioner : Mr. A.R. Bhuyan, Advocate For the respondents : Mr. R. Mazumdar, Ms. A. Das, S.C., Secondary Education – B E F O R E – HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. VIJAY BISHNOI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMAN SHYAM 02-09-2024 (Vijay Bishnoi, C.J.) By this writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the validity of Rule 14(2)(b) of the Assam Secondary Education (Provincialised Schools) Service Rules, 2018. It is noticed that the validity of the above-referred Rule has already been upheld by the Division Bench of this Court in Bhaben Bhatta vs. The State of Assam [WP(C) No.4829/2021] reported in 2022 0 Supreme (Gau) 880. In view of the fact that the validity of the above-referred Rule, which is under challenge in this writ petition, has already been affirmed by the Division Bench of this Court, we do not find any case for interference in this writ petition. Hence, this writ petition is dismissed in terms of the judgment rendered in Bhaben Bhatta vs. The State of Assam (supra). JUDGE CHIEF JUSTICE Comparing Assistant