SAHIDUL HOQUE Vs. STATE OF ASSAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) GRIEVED by the installation of the respondent No. 5 as the in-charge Headmaster of the Gossaidubi M.E. School, Goalpara, (hereafter referred to as the school) and the perceived denial of his preferential claim to the said office, the petitioner seeks judicial intervention for redress. In terms of the impugned order dated 15.9.2006, the said respondent admittedly function as the in-charge Headmaster of the aforementioned school till date.

(2.) I have heard Mr. Mahmud, learned Counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Munir, learned Standing Counsel, Education Department for the official respondents. Also heard Mr. M.H. Rajborbhuiya, learned Counsel for the respondent No. 5.

(3.) THE petitioner has complained that for the non-cooperation of the respondent No. 3, 4 and 5, he could not obtain a copy of the order inspite of his best efforts. He has maintained that the respondent No. 5 had been appointed as a Graduate Assistant Teacher in the school in the year 1980 and is, therefore, junior to him by six years. THE impugned arrangement, he insists is at the instance of the respondent No. 4 who is the Head Assistant of the office of the respondent No. 3 and is also a relation of the respondent No. 5.