1. This writ petition has been filed by Mr.M.Joseph Charles challenging the impugned order of recovery dated 6.6.2006 issued by the District Elementary Educational Officer, Erode, the third respondent herein and the consequential proceedings in Na.Ka.No.1303/06/A1 issued by the Additional Elementary Educational Officer, the fourth respondent herein dated 17.11.06, to quash the same so far as the petitioner is concerned with a consequential direction to the respondents to continue to pay the last drawn salary with incentive increments for higher educational qualification acquired by him with all other attendant and monetary benefits.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner, having passed the Diploma in Teacher Education in the year 1992, registered his name in the employment exchange for getting appointed as Secondary Grade Teacher. Thereafter, he appeared in the competitive examination and got selected for appointment as Secondary Grade Teacher on 27.7.95 in the Panchayat Union Elementary School, Mettuvalvu, Kunnathur, Uthukuli Union in Erode Dis