JUDGMENT :

B.R. SARANGI, J.

1. The State-petitioners have filed this writ petition seeking to quash the order dated 09.02.2015 passed in O.A. No. 590 (C) of 2010, by which the Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Cuttack Bench, Cuttack, by holding that the impugned order of disengagement dated 20.07.2002 was passed without complying the principles of natural justice, quashed the same so also the order dated 15.12.2009, rejecting the representation and directed that the State-petitioners shall reinstate opposite party no. 1 in service in the school, wherefrom he was disengaged, and that he will not be entitled to any pay during the period of disengagement. The tribunal, however, granted liberty to the petitioners to issue show cause notice to the opposite party no. 1 giving him opportunity to submit his response before taking any further action in the matter.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that opposite party no. 1 was initially engaged as peon on daily wage basis for two years from November 1996 in the Board of Secondary Education, Orissa, Cuttack. Thereafter, vide letter dated 01.02.1999, the Secretary, Board of Secondary Education, Orissa requested the Director, Teacher