BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

RESERVED ON : 07.11.2025 PRONOUNCED ON : 19.12.2025

CORAM

THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE K.KUMARESH BABU

W.P.(MD).No.31085 of 2025

and WMP.(MD).Nos.24298 & 24300 of 2025

K.Jeyaram ..Petitioner

Vs

1.The State of Tamil Nadu

Rep by its Secretary,

Department of School Education

Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009.

2.The Director of Elementary Education,

College Road, Chennai – 600 006.

3.The Chief Educational Officer,

Virudhunagar, Virudhunagar District.

4.The District Educational Officer (Elementary)

Sivakasi, Virudhunagar District.

5.The Block Educational Officer-III Rajapalayam, Virudhunagar District.

..Respondents

PRAYER : Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records relating to the impugned order passed by the 4^th respondent DEO in R.C.No. 003659/A2/2025 dated 16.10.2025 suspending the petitioner from service from the post of Headmaster, Panchayat Union Primary School, Muhavoor Kamarajar Nagar, quash the same as illegal and further direct the 4^th respondent DEO to reinstate the petitioner into service as Headmaster of Panchayat Union Primary School, Muhavoor Kamarajar Nagar, with salary and all other consequential benefits.

For Petitioner : Mr.K.Ragatheesh Kumar For Respondents : Mr.N.Satheeshkumar Additional Government Pleader

ORDER

The present writ petition has been filed, seeking a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to quash the impugned order passed by the 4^th respondent DEO in R.C.No.003659/A2/2025 dated 16.10.2025, suspending the petitioner from service from the post of Headmaster, Panchayat Union Primary School, Muhavoor Kamarajar Nagar and to direct the 4^th respondent DEO to reinstate the petitioner into service as Headmaster of Panchayat Union Primary School, Muhavoor Kamarajar Nagar, with salary and all other consequential benefits.

2. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the petitioner was initially appointed as a Secondary Grade Teacher at the Panchayat Union School and was promoted as Headmaster in the year 2006. While he was working as the Headmaster of the Panchayat Union Primary School at Muhavoor Kamarajar Nagar, an order of suspension came to be passed against the petitioner, alleging that the petitioner had committed serious irregularities by wilfully involving himself in the acts of negligence and dereliction by failing to deliver breakfast to 110 children in the school on 14.10.2025, which led to starvation of the children studying in the school.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner would further submit that he had been instrumental in addressing various difficulties faced by the students, including the dilapidated condition of the building, and had also compelled the Revenue Administration to take steps for construction of a new building. He would submit that this had irked the officials in the Education Department, who had issued the order of suspension, originally issued on 20.07.2016. Protests were made by the villagers and parents of the students and having no other option, the order of suspension was revoked and the petitioner was reinstated into service.

4. The said incident took place at the earlier Panchayat Union Primary School at Ayyankollamkondan, and thereafter he was transferred to the present school, where also the petitioner had been performing his duties. Here again, as there were no adequate infrastructure facilities, when the Hon’ble Chief Minister had visited the area, he had handed over a complaint, upon which a grant of Rs.38 lakhs was also sanctioned. He would submit that the petitioner has also been conferred with the “Arignar Anna Thalaimai Thathuva Virudhu” (Best Leadership Award), which also carried a cash prize of Rs.10 lakhs.

5. The learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the said amount had been wholly utilised by the petitioner for construction of a compound wall with high-quality gates, apart from installing nine CCTV cameras, prov