STATE OF TAMIL NADU Vs. S SAGAYARANI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ appeal is directed against the order passed by the learned Single Judge in W. P. No. 46530/2006, dated 05. 02. 2008, whereby, the impugned order of the District Educational Officer, the fourth appellant herein, refusing approval of the appointment of the first respondent as B. T. Assistant (Junior Grade) was set aside and the fourth Appellant was directed to pay arrears of salary and other benefits from 05. 08. 2003, the date of her appointment.

(2.) THE first respondent has passed M. A. M. Ed. degree in English and was appointed as B. T. Assistant (Junior Grade) in English in the Government Aided Minority School, the second respondent herein in the vacancy that had arisen on account of the transfer of one Jenoviya to another school of the same management. The second respondent submitted proposal to the District Educational Officer, Villupuram, for approval of the appointment of the first respondent, enclosing all the educational certificates, together with mark-lists. The fourth Appellant had sent communication to the school management on 23. 07. 2004 stating that the details regarding the first respondent's pass in higher secondary were not sufficient and further directed it to produce the particulars of admission given in the college where she was admitted in B. A. Degree. Again on 17. 08. 2004, the fourth Appellant had returned the proposal of the school management.

(3.) THOUGH the first respondent took efforts to get details of her admission from Stella Maris College, where-from she passed the degree, she could not get the same, as those records were not preserved beyond ten years. The first respondent had passed B. A. Degree by undertaking the course from June, 1987 to April, 1990 through Stella Maris College and got B. Ed. Degree in Annamalai University through correspondence course and passed the same in 1993 with optional subjects as English and Special English. She also got M. A. Degree from Annamalai University through correspondence course having passed the same in December, 1995 and joined M. Ed. during 1996-97 and passed the examination in May, 1997.