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By impugned order dated 19.09.2016, the 4th respondent has declined to grant approval to the appointment of the petitioner, on the ground that when there are surplus teachers working in various other schools under the management of R.C. Diocese of Tuticorin, they should be redeployed to the needy schools, instead of resorting to fresh appointments. The said order is under challenge in this writ petition.

2.The learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that the issue raised in this writ petition, is squarely covered by a Division Bench judgment in Director of Elementary Education, Chennai and two others vs. B.Infanse and another (W.A(MD)Nos.639 of 2015 etc., dated 17.06.2015) and which in turn, is based upon a Full Bench judgment of this Court. Before the Full Bench, G.O.Ms.No.525 School Education (D1) Department dated 29.12.1997 was challenged and the Full Bench has interpreted the said G.O, which has been considered in the abovesaid Division Bench judgement. It is relevant to extract below paragraphs 5, 6 and 8, of the Division Bench judgment:-

''5.Indisputably, the posts, in which, the writ petitioners have been appointed, are sanctioned by the Education Department, after assessment, in terms of G.O.Ms.No.525, School Education(D1) Department, dated 29.12.1997. Eligibility of the writ petitioners, is not disputed. Dates of appointment of the teachers, is also not disputed. Earlier, when the request of the teachers working in TDTA Primary and Middle Schools, Puliangudi, Tirunelveli District, for approval, was denied, on the ground that they were redeployed by the District Elementary Educational Officer, Tirunelveli, Writ Petitions have been filed. Vide common order in W.P.No.10352, 10350 and 10351 of 2006, dated 08.12.2006, they were allowed. The District Elementary Educational Officer, Tirunelveli, has filed Writ Appeals as against the common order dated 08.12.2006 and that the same were dismissed, by separate orders in W.A(MD)No.205 of 2007 dated 09.06.2007, W.A(MD)No.194 of 2007 dated 09.06.2007 and W.A(MD)No.292 of 2007 dated 02.08.2007, respectively. As the orders made in the abovesaid Writ Appeals are similar in nature, suffice to extract one such order, which is as follows:-
Order made in W.A(MD)No.205 of 2007 dated 09.06.2007 ''This writ appeal is filed against the order dated 08.12.2006 made in W.P.Nos.10350 to 10352 of 2006, wherein the relief of issuance of a writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records pertaining to the order passed by the District Elementary Educational Officer, Tirunelveli in passing redeployment order by construing that there are certain excess teachers with reference to G.O.Ms.No.525 School Education (D1) Department dated 29.12.1997. The said G.O. was the subject matter of the Full Bench decision in the case of Director of Elementary Education v. S.Vigila reported in [2006(5) CTC 385], wherein it was held as follows:.
(5) It would be obviously open to the Government to formulate appropriate norms in consonance with the above observation and provisions of the Constitution."

That Full Bench decision has been followed by the learned Single Judge, incidentally, who was also a party to the Full Bench and the redeployment order has been set aside. In the above stated factual matrix of the issue, when the law is settled by the Full Bench, we are of the view that filing of an appeal by the Authority is nothing but an exercise in futility. Hence this Writ Appeal is dismissed. Consequently, connected M.P.No.3 of 2007 is also dismissed. No costs.?