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JYOTI SINGH
Sarita Tyagi – Appellant
Versus
Shaheed Raj Pal Dav Public School – Respondent
JUDGMENT
Jyoti Singh, J.
1. This writ petition has been filed by the Petitioners seeking setting aside of the impugned seniority list of Post Graduate Teachers (`PGTs') in Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School/Respondents No. 1 and 2 (hereinafter referred to as the `School') with a direction to the School to re-frame a correct seniority list in conformity with the Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the `Rules, 1973'). Writ of mandamus is sought for a direction to the School to re- constitute a fresh Departmental Promotion Committee (`DPC') and consider the Petitioners for promotion to the post of Principal.
2. Factual score as averred in the writ petition is that Petitioners are permanent/confirmed employees of the School with unblemished record. Petitioner No. 1 was appointed as PGT (Chemistry) on 01.08.1991 and Petitioner No. 2 as PGT (English) on 12.07.1993. Petitioners were senior-most PGTs in the School.
3. It is averred that a seniority list of PGTs was prepared by the School for the first time in 2020 and all PGTs including the Petitioners were made to sign in a column on the seniority list during a meeting held in the School premises, in acknowledge
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