The petitioner is the Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Post Graduates Teachers Association and they have filed the present writ petition with a strange prayer that the respondents should review and set aside the penalty orders issued against the members of the petitioner Association based on their representation dated 22.01.2007.

2. I have heard the arguments of Mr.L.Chandrakumar, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mrs. Bhavani Subbarayan, learned Assistant Government Pleader taking notice for the respondents and have perused the records.

3. In the representation dated 22.01.2007, which is addressed to both the respondents, it is stated that it was brought to their notice that consequent to the short fall in the pass percentage of the students studying in the Welfare Schools run by the second respondent, memos were given to the members of the Association and penalties of stoppage of increments have been imposed and that their members have not committed any mistake or wrong in the discharge of their duties. According to the Association, the students studying in the schools run by the second respondent, are far below the average and merit and in many cases, fail