ARUM CHATURVEDI Vs. CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN KENDRIYA HINDI SHIKSHAN MANDAL KENDRIYA HINDI SANSTHAN HINDI SANSTHAN MARG AGRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) S. H. A. Raza and Bhagwan Din JJ. Heard Sri V. S. Dwivedi, learn Counsel appearing for the petitioners a: Sri Nurul Huda, learned Standing Counsel, appearing on behalf of the respodents.

(2.) KENDRIYA Hindi Shikshan Mandal/sansthan, which is a body for the promotion, advancement and spread Hindi language, issued an advertiseme in the month of November, 1988 for the selection on the post of Professor, Read Lecturer etc. The advertisement indication that there were four clear vacancies on the post of Reader and two were on the lea-vacancies. One post of Reader in Shiksha Shastra was in clear vacancy. Two posts Lecturer in Bhasha Vigyan were in clear vacancies and four were in leave vacancies In pursuance of the said advertisement the petitioner No. 1 was appointed on the post of Reader (Uprayukta) Hindi Bhasl Vigyan. The order indicated that the said appointment was temporary in nature, in asmuch as, it was on leave vacancy. The petitioners No. 2, 3 and 4 were also a] pointed as Lecturers on temporary bas on leave vacancies. The petitioner No. was appointed as Research Assistant 1 the Director/secretary of the Mandal on temporary vacancy on a leave vacancy. In all the appointments, it was indicated the such appointment would last till 31-5-1989 and thereafter the appointment shall come to an end. It was further indicated in the appointment orders that eve during that period, their services could be terminated without giving any notice, was also mentioned in the appointment letters that whenever the persons on leave would join, the services of the petitioners would automatically stand terminated.

(3.) IT is pertinent to mention here that the petitioner No. 1 was already working as a Lecturer. In pursuance of the appoint ment letter dated 30-10-1989, he was ap pointed/promoted as Reader. The petitioners No. 2,3 and 4 were also work ing in the Sansthan as Research Assistants or in any other capacity and they were appointed as Lecturers on various dates, in the year 1989 and only the petitioner No. 5, who was appointed as a Research Assistant, was not working in any capacity under Hindi Shikshan Mandal, Agra.