JUDGMENT (ORAL) 08.10.2024

C. HARI SHANKAR, J.

1. This Letters Patent Appeal impugns judgment dated 13 February 2018 passed by a learned Single Judge in WP (C) 11394/2016, Ravindra Memorial Public School v Director of Education.

2. The appellant joined the Respondent 1-School, “theSchool”,hereinafter as Assistant Teacher on temporary basis in 1988 and continued to serve the School without interruption till June 2013. On the charge that she had inflicted corporal punishment on a Class III student in the School on 17 August 2010 and had abandoned her duties since November 2011, the appellant was subjected to a departmental inquiry resulting in her dismissal from service vide order dated 6 June 2013. The appellant challenged the decision by way of appeal before the learned Delhi School Tribunal, “thelearnedTribunal”,hereinafter By order dated 2 September 2016, the learned Tribunal held that there was no legally admissible evidence on the basis of which the charge against the appellant could be sustained. Accordingly, the learned Tribunal set aside the order of dismissal of the appellant from service and directed her reinstatement with full back wages.

3. Aggrieved by the decision of the