JUDGMENT

Special leave granted.

2. In the year 1975 the appellant was working as the Head Master of a High School which was being run by the Mundikota Shikshan Prasarak Mandal respondent No. 1, which was a private body. On account of certain earlier events which need not be set out here the Management instituted a disciplinary enquiry against the appellant and on July 7, 1975, the appellant was informed by the Management that it had imposed on the appellant the punishment of reversion to the post of Assistant Teacher which according to the Management was the substantive post held by him Aggrieved by the above order of reversion, the appellant filed an appeal before the Deputy Director of Education, Nagpur Division, Nagpur, contending that the enquiry had been vitiated on account of violation of principles of natural justice and that he had never held at any time the post of an Assistant Teacher to which he had been reverted. After hearing both the parties the Deputy Director of Education passed an order dated October 3, 1975 setting aside the decision of the Management and remanding the case to the Management for fresh decision on the ground that the enquiry had been vitiated on acc