OM PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This petition seeks the quashing of the order dated 3rd November, 2011 passed by the District Inspector of Schools, Mainpuri. A further direction has been sought that the respondents should not interfere with the functioning of the petitioner as the Officiating Principal of the Sanatan Dharm Inter College, Hasanpur, District Mainpuri (hereinafter referred to as the Institution').

(2.) It transpires from the records of the writ petition that the petitioner was appointed as Officiating Principal of the Institution on 1st July, 2010 and his signatures were also attested by the District Inspector of Schools on 2nd July, 2010. On 30th January, 2011, the Committee of Management of the Institution resolved to suspend the petitioner and the order of suspension was issued on 31st January, 2011. The District Inspector of Schools, however, revoked the suspension order on 10th March, 2011. This order was assailed by the Committee of Management of the Institution in Writ Petition No. 16047 of 2011 and the petition was allowed by the judgment and order dated 29th March, 2011. The matter was remitted to the District Inspector of Schools to pass a fresh order expeditiously, preferably within one month from the date a certified copy of the order was filed.

(3.) The District Inspector of Schools, instead of expressing his views on the suspension order, passed an order on 27th August, 2011 for reversion of the petitioner from the post of Officiating Principal of the Institution to the post of Lecturer in Civics. This order was assailed by the petitioner in Writ Petition No. 52573 of 2011 in which an interim order was passed on 12th September, 2011 which is as follows :