JUDGMENT :

R. Subramanian, J.

[Prayer : Writ Appeal filed under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, against the order dated 11.12.2017 made in W.P.No.11517 of 2012.]

The Director of School Education is on appeal aggrieved by the order of the writ Court setting aside the proceedings dated 12.04.2012, in and by which, the promotion granted to the respondent as Tamil Pandit on 12.03.2012 was withdrawn on the ground that the petitioner was not qualified.

2. The respondent who was working as a Junior Assistant in the Census Department, on retrenchment, was appointed as Junior Assistant in the education department on 01.03.2004 and his services were regularized on 10.11.2009. The respondent has passed his SSLC (X Standard) in 1980 and thereafter appeared for his Higher Secondary (XII Standard) Examination conducted in April 1982. He was not successful, having failed in Mathematics. However, the respondent completed B.Lit., from Alagappa University in 2007 and also completed M.A. Tamil in 2011. Thereafter, he appeared again in the Supplementary Examination conducted in September 2010 and cle