JUDGMENT

AHMADI, J. - Three writ petition were filed by (i) Dr. Radha Krishna Poddar (ii) Shri Ambika Prasad and (iii) Dr. Rash Lal Yadav challenging their removal from the Chairmanship of the Bihar School Service Board constituted under the provisions of the Bihar Non-Government Secondary Schools (Taking-over of Management and Control) Act, 1981, hereinafter called the Act. These three petitions which were heard by a Division Bench of the Patna High Court came to be dismissed by a common judgment rendered on 24-3-1992. The petitioners of the first two petitions have not preferred any appeal against the said judgment but the petitioner of the third petition Dr. Rash Lal Yadav has preferred the present appeal under Article 136 of the Constitution. It is, therefore, not necessary for us to refer to the facts of the petitioner of the first two writ petitions. We will, therefore, confine ourselves to the factual position relevant to this appeal filed by Dr. Rash Lal Yadav, hereinafter called the appellant. The appellant was the Head of the Department in Maithili in Kunwar Singh College, Lakhisarai, before the selection and appointment as Chairman of the Bihar School Service Board, here