JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Shri H.N. Singh, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Shri G.S. Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Neeraj Tripathi, learned Additional Advocate General for the State-respondents.

2. The petitioner before this Court has been working as a lecturer in the institution and his services were regularized way back on 25.04.2006. He is aggrieved now by the order passed by the Regional Joint Director of Education dated 19.03.2020, holding the appointment of the petitioner to be bad for being result of fraud and forgery and thus directed for stoppage of payment of salary of the petitioner, and also the consequential order passed by the District Inspector of Schools on 20.03.2020 withholding the payment of salary of the petitioner and further directing the authorized controller to take appropriate action under the Intermediate Education Act, 1921 against illegal and fraudulent appointment of petitioner.

3. Briefly stated facts of the case are that petitioner was initially appointed on ad-hoc basis as a lecturer against a substantive vacancy on 20.01.1991. His appointment came to be approved on 07.03.1991 and thus petitioner started functioning in the institution