(1.) This is an appeal by special leave from the judgment dated 12 September 1968 of the High Court of Mysore dismissing by a common judgment a group of petitions. The appellant challenged the Mysore Education Department Service Rules dated 9 January 1967 published in the notification No. ED. 91 DGO, 58 on 9 January 1967.
(2.) The Rules impeached by the appellant are as follows:-
(3.) The appellant was posted as 'additional in-charge' of Technical Education, Bangalore. There were other petitions before the Mysore High Court similarly challenging the aforesaid Service Rule. The petitioners in those cases were the Principal of the Polytechnic at Mysore Head of the Mechanical Engineering Section. C. P. C. Polytechnic, Mysore, Principal of the Polytechnic, Hassan and Principal of B. D. T. College of Engineering Davangere.