JUDGMENT :

PUSHPA SATHYANARAYANA, J.

Prayer: Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the order dated 11.12.2017 in W.P. No. 21151 of 2013.

1. The State instituted this intra-Court appeal seeking to set aside the order of the learned Single Judge dated 11.12.2017 made in W.P. No. 21151 of 2013.

2. By virtue of the impugned order, the learned Single Judge set aside the order of the Joint Director of School Education/the second appellant herein, who was the second respondent in the writ petition, dated 29.01.2013 and directed the appellants to treat the writ petitioner’s degree educational qualification valid and consequently appoint her to the post of B.T. Assistant (History) in the vacancies existing in the Government Schools.

3. According to the writ petitioner, she passed S.S.L.C. examination during 1992 and after successfully passing the entrance examination conducted by the Madras University for admission to the B.A. Degree Course, she joined the degree in 1999 and thereafter acquired B.Ed. Degree in 2011. The petitioner appeared for the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) and upon successful completion, appeared for counselling on 09.12.2012. Though appointment order