JUDGMENT

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith and with the consent of the learned Counsel for the parties heard finally.

2. The challenge in this Petition is to a judgment and order dtd. 21/12/2021, passed by the learned Presiding Officer Additional School Tribunal, Navi Mumbai in Appeal No. 12 of 2020, whereby the Appeal preferred by the respondent No. 1 came to be allowed and the petitioner No. 1 was directed to appoint the respondent No. 1 as a Supervisor in the petitioner No. 2- School with effect from 1/9/2019, in the place of petitioner No. 4.

3. Shorn of unnecessary details, the background facts leading to this Petition can be stated as under:-

(a) Sahakar Vidya Prasarak Mandal, the petitioner No. 1 is a Trust registered under Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, 1950. The petitioner No. 1 runs Sahakar Vidya Prasarak Mandal's Secondary School at Kalwa, Dist. Thane, the petitioner No. 2, a Government recognized Secondary School.

(b) The respondent No. 1 was appointed as an Assistant Teacher in the petitioner No. 2- School on 26/8/1987. The respondent No. 1 then had S.C.C., D.Ed. qualification. The petitioner No. 3 was appointed as an Assistant Teacher on 11/6/1990. The petitioner No