PREM SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) C.M. No. 13690 of 2006.

(2.) The petitioner was inducted into the service of the Sant Hari Singh Khalsa High School, Jian Chhabewal, Hoshiarpur (hereinafter referred to as the private school), as a clerk on 22.11.1972. At the time of appointment of the petitioner, the school under reference, was an aided school, and was, therefore, regulated and entitled to the different schemes issued by the State government in connection with recognised aided schools. The appointment of the petitioner at the hands of the private school was considered by the respondents, and was approved under the grant -in -aid scheme by a memorandum dated 1.3.1973. Consequent upon the appointment of the petitioner to the private school, the State government commenced to reimburse salary payable to the petitioner under the grant -in -aid scheme.

(3.) The State government, in furtherance of a policy decision, took over the management and the employees of the private school on 31.8.2000. The document of take over and the conditions thereof, have been placed on the record of this case as Annexure P -2. Conditions No. 1 and 4 thereof are relevant for the present controversy and are, accordingly, being extracted hereunder: