(1.) Bishop Hodges Higher Secondary School, Mavelikkara, is an aided school managed by the Corporate Manager, CMS schools, and is governed by the provisions of the Kerala Education Act, 1959 and the Rules framed thereunder. These writ petitions have been filed by two claimants vying for the post of HSST (Zoology) under the 5th respondent management.
(2.) A thumbnail sketch of the facts are as under:
(3.) It is in the above backdrop that these writ petitions have been preferred.