2016 Supreme(All) 788
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : SURYA PRAKASH KESARWANI, J.
KAMESHWAR THAKUR ....Petitioner
Versus
R.H.E.O. ....Respondent
(Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 30708 of 1993, decided on 11th July, 2016)
Counsel :
C. Prakash, C. Prashad, K. Kant, Siddharth Khare and Y. Agrawal for the Petitioner; S.C. and Siddharth Singh for the Respondents.
Headnote:Statute of University of Gorakhpur—Chapter XXIII, Clause 35.02—Resignation—Forced resignation—Giving of notice of resignation—Employee resigning from service should give notice to this effect in writing to management one month in advance otherwise he should deposit one month’s salary with college in lieu of notice—Similarly if management of college decide to terminate service of employee, management should give one month’s notice to employee or one month’s salary in lieu thereof—Petitioner voluntarily tendered resignation, which was lawfully accepted by competent authority, he could not be allowed to say that resignation was bad for want of one month’s notice or deposit of one month’s salary—Since post which fell vacant due to resignation of petitioner, another person appointed, which was duly approved by competent authority—Such resignation could not be said to be forced resignation. [Paras 7 to 11]
Result; Petition Dismissed.
Hon’ble Surya Prakash Kesarwani, J.—Heard Sri Yogesh Agarwal, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Siddharth Singh, learned counsel for the respondent No. 3 and learned standing counsel for the respondent Nos. 1 and 2.
2. This writ petition has been filed praying for a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari to quash the order dated 15.7.1993 passed by the District Inspector of Schools, Ballia.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that specific averments made in paragraphs-21, 25 and 27 have been replied by the respondent No. 3 in paragraphs-16, 18 and 20 of the counter-affidavit without annexing any evidence of affording opportunity of hearing to the petitioner and thus, averments made in the counter-affidavit are not entertainable in view of the law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Bharat Singh: Dallu: Nathu Ram: Ram Phal v. State of Haryana, AIR 1988 SC 2181 (para-13) to the effect that when a point which is ostensibly a point of law is required to be substantiated by facts, the party raising the point, if he is the petitioner, must plead and prove such facts by evidence which must appear from the writ petition and if he is the respondent, from the counter-affidavit and if the facts are not pleaded or evidence in support of such facts is not annexed to the writ petition or to the counter-affidavit, as the case may be, the Court will not entertain the point. He submits that the resignation was obtained by force and as such there is no resignation in the eyes of law. He further submits that Clause 35.02 of Chapter XXIII of Statute of University of Gorakhpur provides the manner for resignation by a temporary employee from service by giving one month’s notice in advance in writing to the management otherwise he has to deposit one month’s salary in lieu of notice. In the present set of facts, the petitioner has neither deposited one month’s salary with the college nor the college has demanded one month’s salary from the petitioner in lieu of notice and as such even this forced resignation was without compliance to the procedure prescribed by statute 35.02. In support of his submission, he relied upon a decision of Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of A.K. Roy v. State of Punjab, AIR 1986 SC 2160 (para-10) to submit that if a statute prescribes the manner in which something is to be done, then it has to be done in that manner and in no other manner. He, therefore, submits that since the resignation of the petitioner dated 1.7.1992 was obtained by force by the management of the college and also since the aforesaid resignation was not in the manner prescribed by statute 35.02 of Chapter XXIII of Statute of University of Gorakhpur and as such the aforesaid resignation was wholly null and void. He further submits that no opportunity of hearing was afforded by the respondent No. 2 before passing the impugned order dated 15.7.1993.
4. Sri Siddarth Singh, learned counsel for the respondent No. 3 submits that one Sri Subhash Chandra Singh was appointed after due approval of the D.I.O.S. dated 2.2.1994 on the vacancy created due to resignation of the petitioner. Averments in this regard have been made in paragraph-18 of the counter-affidavit and paras-9 and 10 of the supplementary counter-affidavit which have not been specifically denied by the petitioner. He submits that the writ petition is not maintainable because of non-impleadment of newly appointed employee Sri Subhash Chandra Singh. The allegation of the petitioner against the manager of the institution is not entertaianble inasmuch as the manager has not been made party in the present writ petition. The Principal was the appointing authority, who was present before the D.I.O.S. and the petitioner was afforded full opportunity of hearing. He refers to paragraphs-16, 18 and 20 of the counter-affidavit and paragraphs-8, 9 and 10 of the supplementary counter-affidavit. He further submits that entire records were produced before the