By the Court.—The appellant in this appeal questions the correctness of an interim direction issued by a learned single Judge of this Court dated 23.4.2010 and has also challenged the consequential orders dated 28.4.2010 and 29.4.2010 passed by the District Inspector of Schools in relation to the claim of continuance of the appellant as an ad hoc Lecturer and payment of salary in the institution known as Manas Inter College, Fatehpur, District Deoria, which is an institution established and governed by the provisions of the Intermediate Education Act, 1921. The service conditions of the teachers are governed by the aforesaid provisions and selection and appointment on such posts are governed by the provisions of the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board Act 1982 and the Regulations and Rules framed thereunder.

2. The undisputed facts are that the post of Lecturer in Economics which, is at the centre of the dispute, was occupied by one Sri Krishna Rao on a substantive basis. According to the hierarchy of teachers, the lecturers grade is the senior most grade and whenever the office of the Head of the institution namely the Principal, falls vacant, the senior most