TAPESHWAR MAHTO Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE instant interlocutory application has been preferred on behalf of the petitioners for early hearing of the case. Since pleadings are complete and counsel for the rival parties are present, the case is being heard and disposed of. Heard counsel for the parties.

(2.) IT is the contention of the petitioners that they are entitled for appointment as Assistant Teachers under the advertisement issued in the year 2002 by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission for appointment to the post of Assistant Teacher in Government schools in Jharkhand. The sole issue raised in the instant writ application on behalf of the petitioners, which needs to be addressed, is in relation to their claim that though, they had completed their teachers' training course earlier to the cut off date of the application i.e. 30th September 2002, but they were denied appointment on the grounds that they had not obtained the relevant certificates for passing the teachers training examination on the date on which appointments were made in the year 2003.

(3.) COUNSEL for the respondent State as well as JPSC disputed the submission of the petitioners based upon the judgment of the Full Bench in the case of Md. Sajjad Ali & others (Supra) by stating that these petitioners had not passed the teachers' training examination before appointment letters were issued. In the said case, such petitioners had passed the teachers' training course before the date of issuance of appointment letters. In such circumstances, they were directed to be appointed on the ground that they had obtained teachers' training qualification by the cut off date for making application for appointment to such post.