AJAY YADAV Vs. CONTONMENT BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These writ petitions are based on same facts and same questions of law are involved in all these writ petitions. Since in Writ Petition No. 7306 of 2003, detailed reply of the respondents covering the other two connected writ petitions has been filed by way of counter-affidavit, therefore, this writ petition is taken to be the leading case.

(2.) The admitted facts in the above noted writ petitions are that the Cantonment Board, Varanasi, runs one Junior High School, one Boys Primary School and one Girls Primary School. The total strength of the teachers in all the three schools is 18 as under :

(3.) Sri Uma Shanker Ram, Head Master and Sri G. K, Sharma, Assistant Teacher in Junior High School retired on 2.6.2001 and 31.5.2001 respectively. One of the vacancies of Head Masters was filled up by promotion of Ms. Vibha Srivastava. The resultant vacancies of two posts of Assistant Teachers in Junior High School were filled up by promotion of Sri Raj Bahadur Yadav and Sri Rajesh Singh Kushwaha. Due to above promotions two vacancies of Assistant Teachers were caused in the Boys Primary School while one vacancy of Assistant Teacher was already existing in the Boys Primary School.