JUDGMENT

RAY, J.:— This application for special leave involves a very short but very important and substantial question of law namely whether a Court while hearing writ petitions is under an obligation to pass a speaking order - an order recording in brief at least the reasons which weighed with the Court in determining the salient questions raised by the parties to the action while dismissing or rejecting the writ petition in order to enable the parties to know the reasons for such order, more particularly when there is provision for appeal including appeal on special leave to this Court under Art. 136 of the Constitution of India to apprise the appellate Court of the reasons of the order in order to conform the basic principles of justice and fair play and as well as the rule of law which pervades our constitutional system and also in consonance with the principles of natural justice. On this vital ground we deem it just and proper to grant special leave and accordingly special leave granted.

2. The facts of the case in brief are inter alia that the petitioner a B. Sc. with 2nd Class honours, was appointed as an Assistant Teacher in 1951 in the New English Institute Girls High Sch