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2024 Supreme(Mad) 1345
BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT
ABDUL QUDDHOSE, J.
T.S. Kasthuri – Petitioner
Versus
The Director of School Education, Chennai – Respondent
W.P. (MD) No. 10130 of 2017, W.M.P. (MD) Nos. 7772, 14968 of 2017
Decided On : 08-08-2024
Important Points
A writ petition becomes infructuous when the relief sought is no longer necessary or applicable, leading to dismissal.
Subject
Administrative Law - Writ Jurisdiction
Act Referred
Headnote
Writ Petition - Employment Law - The court dismissed the writ petition as infructuous, acknowledging the petitioner's counsel's statement that the relief sought was no longer necessary, thus highlighting the principle that courts will not entertain matters that have become moot or irrelevant.
Fact of the Case:
The petitioner filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking to quash an order regarding her deployment and to be reinstated at her original school after being moved due to surplus staff in 2012.
Finding of the Court:
The court noted the petitioner's counsel's endorsement that the relief sought had become infructuous, leading to the dismissal of the petition.
Issues: Whether the writ petition seeking reinstatement was valid given the petitioner's counsel's statement that the relief was no longer necessary.
Ratio Decidendi: The court emphasized that it will not adjudicate on matters that have become moot, as the purpose of the writ petition was no longer applicable.
Result: The writ petition was dismissed as infructuous, with no order as to costs.
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner: M. Jerin Mathew.
For the Respondent: T. Amjad Khan.
ORDER :
Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying for a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records relating to the order passed by the second respondent in Na.Ka.No. 4594/A4/2016 dated 29.05.2017 and quash the same as illegal and consequently direct the second respondent to re-deploy the petitioner back to the Government High School Umachikulam, from where she was taken as surplus in the year 2012 and placed at Government High School, Vandiyur within a stipulated period of time.
1. The learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the relief sought for in this Writ Petition has now become infructuous. He has also made an endorsement to that effect in the Court bundle.
2. Recording the same, this Writ Petition is dismissed as infructuous. There shall be no order as to costs. Consequently, connected miscellaneous petitions are closed.
