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3. The original applications before the Additional Bench of the Tribunal at Ernakulam and the Principal Bench at Thiruvananthapuram were filed invoking the provisions under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, challenging the orders passed by the Director of General Education (Higher Secondary Department) ordering transfer and posting, by way of redeployment of teachers who were found excess during the staff fixation order for the year 2023-24 in Government Higher Secondary Schools in the State. In O.A.No.502 of 2025, the challenge was against Annexure A1 order No.HSE/2225/2025-Ad C5 dated 11.03.2025 issued by the Director of General Education (Higher Secondary Department), regarding redeployment of Higher Secondary School Teacher (Junior) Malayalam. Similar orders issued by the Director of General Education (Higher Secondary Department) were under challenge in the connected original applications. The reliefs sought for in the original applications are for setting aside such orders to the extent the applicants in the respective original applications are redeployed and directing the respondents therein (the petitioners in these and conn. cases 2026:KER:16808 original petitions) to restore status quo ante, i.e., the position that existed prior to the issuance of such orders. Other consequential reliefs were also sought for in the original applications. The reliefs sought for in O.A.No.502 of 2025 reads thus;

9. Having considered the submissions made by the learned Senior Government Pleader and also the learned counsel for the respondent(s)-applicant(s) in O.P.(KAT)Nos.220, 229 and and conn. cases 2026:KER:16808 252 of 2025, we notice that the challenge in O.A.No.502 of 2024 and connected cases and O.A.(EKM)No.405 of 2025 and connected cases are against the orders passed by the Director of General Education (Higher Secondary Department) ordering transfer and posting, by way of redeployment of teachers who were found excess during the staff fixation order for the year 2023-24 in Government Higher Secondary Schools in the State.