(Writ Appeals against the order dated 29.9.2004 in W.P.No.18900 of 2001 on the file of this Court.)

Common Judgment:

S.J. Mukhopadhaya, J.

Both the writ appeals have been preferred by the respective appellants against the common order dated 29.9.04 passed in W.P.No.18900 of 2001.

2. In W.A.No.3776 of 2004, the Correspondent, M.M.Higher Secondary School, Bethelpuram, Kanyakumari District (hereinafter referred to as the school) is the appellant. In the other appeal, W.A.No.593 of 2005, the Director of School Education, College Road, Chennai and the District Educational Officer, Thuckaley, Kanyakumari District are the appellants.

3. The writ petition was preferred by the first respondent (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner) for direction on respondents 1 to 3 in the writ petition, who are the appellants before this Court, to approve (hereinafter referred to as sanction) the petitioner's post and to pay him all the arrears of salary as was due since 1988 till the date of sanction of the post. The prayer made therein having been allowed, the appellants have challenged the impugned order.

4. The case of the writ petitioner was that he being M.Ed. Post-Graduate Degree holder