Imran Ahmad v. Director Secondary Education Directorate Dehradun

SL. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar's order with Signatures COURT'S OR JUDGES'S ORDERS

W PSS 1 1 7 9 / 2 0 1 9 Hon 'ble Man oj Ku m ar Tiw ar i, J.

Mr. K.P. Upadhyaya, Advocate, assisted by Mr. Hemant Pant, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. P.S. Bisht, Additional CSC, for the State/ respondent no. 1 and 2.

Mr. Parikshit Saini, Advocate, for the respondent no. 3 and 4.

(2) Petitioner was serving as Junior Clerk in a minority institution, which is fully financed/ aided by State Government. Vide order dated 7.5.2019, he was term inated from the service by the Committee of Management of the concerned institution. Thus feeling aggrieved by his term ination, petitioner has approached this Court.

(3) Learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that petitioner's termination has been ordered on a trivial charge and without obtaining approval of the competent authority, in terms of provisions contained in Uttarakhand School Education Act, 2006 and the regulations framed thereunder in 2009. Thus, according to him, order of term ination, passed against petitioner, cannot be sustained.

(4) Mr. Parikshit Saini, learned Counsel for Committee of Management of concerned institution, and Mr. P.S. Bisht, learned Additional CSC for the State, do not dispute the aforesaid subm ission that petitioner has been term inated from service without obtaining approval of the competent authority and they have admitted this fact in their respective counter affidavit. The only defence taken by Committee of Management is that the protection, available to employees of the government aided institutions under Regulation 25 of Chapter 3 of the Regulations framed under Uttarakhand School Education Act, 2006, would not be available to petitioner as he is an employee of a minority institution. Regulation 25 is extracted below:

"25& deZpkfj;ksa dks izkI; n.M] ftlds fy, ftyk f'k{kk vf/kdkjh dh iwoZ Lohd`fr vko";d gksxh] fuEufyf[kr esa ls fdlh ,d :Ik esa gks ldrh gS %&&

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¼x½ Js.kh esa voufrA

¼?k½ ifjyfC/k;ksa esa dehA

prqFkZ Js.kh deZpkfj;ksa dks mijksDr dksbZ n.M nsus gsrq iz/kkukpk;Z vFkok iz/kkuk/;kid l{ke~ gksxkA l{ke~ vf/kdkjh }kjk n.M fn;s tkus dh n"kk esa prqFkZ Js.kh deZpkfj;ksa }kjk izcU/k lfefr dks vihy dh tk ldsxhA ;g vihy n.M lwfpr fd;s tkus dh frfFk ls ,d ekg ds vUnj izLrqr gks tkuh pkfg;s vkSj ml ij izcU/k lfefr }kjk fu.kZ; dj vihy dh izkfIr dh frfFk ls vf/kdre~ 6 lIrkg ds Hkhrj ns fn;k tk;sxkA leLr vko";d vfHkys[kksa ij fopkj djus ,oa deZpkjh dh] ;fn og izcU/k lfefr ds le{k~ Lo;a mifLFkr gksuk pkgs] lquokbZ ds Ik"pkr~ izcU/k lfefr vihy ij fu.kZ; nsxhA

prqFkZ Js.kh deZpkjh dks ;g Hkh vf/kdkj gksxk fd mldh vihy ij fd;s x;s izcU/k lfefr ds fu.kZ; ds fo#) og ftyk f'k{kk vf/kdkjh dks] fu.kZ; lwfpr fd;s tkus dh frfFk ls ,d ekg ds vUnj vH;kosnu dj ldsxkA

fdUrq izfrcU/k ;g gksxk fd ;fn izcU/k lfefr mi;qZDr~ fu/kkZfjr N% lIrkg dh vof/k ds Hkhrj viuk fu.kZ; mijksDr vihy ij u ns rks lacaf/kr deZpkjh viuk vH;kosnu lh/ks ftyk f'k{kk vf/kdkjh dks mijksDr N% lIrkg dh vof/k chr tkus ij ns ldrk gSA

ftyk f'k{kk vf/kdkjh }kjk mijksDr vH;kosnu ij vH;kosnu dh izkfIr dh frfFk ls vf/kdre rhu ekg ds Hkhrj fu.kZ; ns fn;k tk;sxk vkSj ;g fu.kZ; vfUre gksxkA

vH;kosnu ds izLrqrhdj.k fopkj ,oa fu.kZ; ds lEcU/k esa vko";d ifjorZu ds lkFk bl v/;k; ds fofu;e 75 ls 86 ykxw gksaxsA "

(5) The contention made by Mr. Parikshit Saini is unacceptable. The provisions contained in Uttarakhand School Education Act, 2006 and the regulations framed thereunder are applicable to employees across board, including teaching and non-teaching employees of the government aided institutions. Although for minority institution, there are certain other provisions, however, there is nothing to indicate in Regulation 25 of Chapter 3 of the aforesaid regulations, on which reliance has been placed by petitioner, that it is not applicable to the minority institutions. Section of Uttarakhand School Education Act provides that appointment in a minority institution can be made after approval of the competent authority, therefore, no teaching or non-teaching employee of m inority institution can be term inated from service without approval of the competent authority.

(6) Since approval, as contemplated under Regulation 25 of Chapter 3 of the aforesaid regulations, has not been obtained in the present case, therefore, impugned termination order cannot be sustained and is liable to be set aside. Accordingly, writ petition is allowed. Impugned order dated 7.5.2019 is set aside. Petitioner shall be reinstated in service along with all consequential benefits.

( Man oj Ku m ar Tiw ar i)

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