Muralee Krishna S., J.

The respondents in W.P.(C)No.32612 of 2019 filed this writ appeal, invoking the provisions under Section 5 (i) of the Kerala High Court Act, 1958 , challenging the judgment dated 30.10.2025 passed by the learned Single Judge in that writ petition. For convenience of reference, the parties are referred to in this judgment in their status as they are in the writ petition.

2. The petitioners are Higher Secondary School Teachers (Junior) (‘HSST (Jr)’ for short). They were appointed during the year 2012 in the vacancies that were newly sanctioned by the Government in the academic year 2011-2012. Their appointments were approved with effect from the next academic year, providing the reason that the creation of posts and batches had not been sanctioned for the 2011-12 academic year. Consequently, the initial applications for approval were returned by the respective Regional Deputy Directors with a direction to resubmit them, on