M B NATARAJ Vs. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India claiming the following relief:-

(2.) It is the case of petitioner that he joined as a teacher in the High School in the year 1991. He is working with utmost faith and sincerity in discharging his duties. He was promoted as School Assistant in the year 2009 and again promoted as Head Master, SPMH School, Tadipatri vide proceedings dated 12.02.2019. He has been discharging duties sincerely and twice he received best teacher award also. After assuming charge as Head Master, the petitioner discharged his duties sincerely and tried his level best to run the school with discipline. In order to bring discipline in the staff for the better future of students, he conducted a meeting and requested all the staff to be punctual and disciplined in the school, so, that children can be controlled and maintain discipline.

(3.) While so, on 07.12.2019 the owner of the Tadipatri Engineering College Sri Ramesh Reddy along with his followers and gunman entered into the school and shifted petitioner's headmaster's room to a small room stating that the existing room is not convenient to the staff to come and sign the register and warned the petitioner not to insist the staff to maintain punctuality and allow them to work in their own way and also proclaimed that this school should be run in accordance with his directives. When the petitioner complained about the same to the Superintendent of Police he advised to give complaint to the Deputy Superintendent of Police. Therefore, the petitioner gave complaint about the incident to the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Tadipatri requesting him to take action against the said Ramesh Reddy and protect the petitioner to discharge his duties. The petitioner also intimated about the said incident to the 4th respondent vide letter dated 10.12.2019. The 3rd respondent vide proceedings dated 06.01.2020 transferred the petitioner to JCNRMBH School, Tadipatri and one Shri Ram Madhusudhana Raju, Head Master of the School was transferred to the SPMH School, where the petitioner was working as Head Master.