USHA DEVI Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this writ application, petitioner has prayed for a direction the respondents to pay to the petitioner her salary / honorarium which has been withheld since the month of January 2008, even though she has been discharging her duty as a Para Teacher in the newly created Primary School, Ghaghra in Tandwa Block, Chatra. Further prayer has been made for a declaration that the respondents do not have any authority or jurisdiction to take the work of Para Teacher from any other person other than the present petitioner in the aforesaid school.

(2.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the respondent State.

(3.) THOUGH no counter -affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondent, but the learned counsel for the respondent State invites attention to the Annexures filed by the petitioner, particularly Anneuxre -4 which informs that inquiry into the dispute had revealed that the petitioners appointment was legal and proper.