JUDGMENT

A.N. Varma, J. - This petition is typical of a spate of litigations which is coming to this Court in the shape of writ petitions praying for a writ of mandamus directing the District Inspector of Schools of the concerned to pay salary to ad hoc teacher for the period beyond 30th of June following the date of their appointment. The question raised in this petition is being disposed of after hearing learned counsel for the petitioners as well as the learned Standing Counsel.

2. The petitioners' grievance is that even though the U.P. Secondary Education Services Commission has not recommended any candidate for appointment under the U.P. Secondary Education Services Commission and Selection Boards Act (U.P. Act No. V of 1982), the District Inspector of Schools has stopped payment of salary to the petitioners on the ground that their ad hoc appointment made under Section 18 of the aforesaid Act has automatically come to an end on the 30th of June following the date of such ad hoc appointment in virtue of clause (c) of Section 18 (3) of U.P. Act No. V of 1982. The petitioners assert that they have been validly appointed under Section 18 as ad hoc teachers and their ad hoc appoint