USHA SHARMA Vs. RANCHI UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the parties. This application has been preferred by the petitioner for a direction on the respondents to pay salary/wages for the period, she was forced to remain out of service, because of the order of termination, as also salary for the period from re -instatement i.e. 5th October, 1998 onwards, including the current salary.

(2.) AS the case can be disposed of on short points and the question of legality and propriety of the teachers of the college in question, including the petitioner, seems to be pending consideration before a Committee of Honble Mr. Justice S.C. Agarwal, a retired Judge of Supreme Court, it is not necessary to make unnecessary observations in the present case.

(3.) COUNSEL for the petitioner gave much stress on the claim of the petitioner for salary for the period from 22nd June. 1995 to 5th October. 1998 i.e. the period the petitioner was forced to remain out of service. However, such claim of the petitioner is fit to be rejected as in the reinstatement order she was intimated vide Memo No. 3314 dated 4th October, 1998 that she will not be getting the arrears of salary. The said order is quoted hereunder: