JUDGMENT

The petitioner was appointed as H.S.A. (Malayalam) by the fifth respondent Manager by Ext.P1 appointment order dated 18.6.2004 in M.E.S. Higher Secondary School, Sreenarayanapuram, against an additional division vacancy sanctioned for the academic year 2004- 2005. At the time of appointment, the petitioner possessed a B.A. degree in Economics and a B.Ed. degree in Malayalam awarded by the University of Calicut. The District Educational Officer, Irinjalakkuda declined to approve the said appointment on the ground that the vacancy should have been filled up by appointing a protected teacher. The appeal filed by the Manager before the Deputy Director of Education, Thrissur was rejected. The revision petition filed by the Manager before the Director of Public Instruction was also rejected by order passed on 23.2.2008. The Manager as well as the petitioner thereupon filed revision petitions before the Government.

2. The petitioner, and another teacher whose appointment as HSA (Malayalam) in the very same school with effect from 25.7.2005 had not been approved, thereafter filed W.P.(C)No.1666 of 2009 in this Court wherein they challenged the orders passed by the authorities declin