JUDGMENT :

Yashwant Varma, J.

1. Heard Sri Vineet Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Birendra Pratap Singh, learned Standing Counsel and Sri Awadhesh Kumar, learned counsel who appears for the contesting respondent the Basic Education Officer.

2. The petitioner was appointed as an Assistant Teacher in a primary school pursuant to an order passed by the Basic Education Officer, Basti on 18 November 1999. That order stands appended to the writ petition as Annexure-2. The name of the petitioner appears at serial No. 27 in that list. As is manifest from a perusal of the aforesaid order, his name was subsequently scored out with the observation being recorded that it was being placed in abeyance. Curiously the aforesaid remark made in that order is not signed by any authority of the respondents.

3. It further transpires from the record that upon receipt of certain complaints, the appointment of the petitioner was placed in abeyance on the allegation that the B.Ed. Degree as held by the petitioner was forged. Upon requisite inquiry being made, the respondent ultimately came to hold that the complaint was without substance. Consequently another order of 13 December 1999 came