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"17. In this case, admittedly, the petitioner was not included in the seniority list which was drawn as on 01.01.2024. Ext.P6 order of redeployment was passed only on 29.05.2024. Even as per the Rules, the supplementary list during a school year is liable to be sent before 31st May of every year. The competent authority shall approve the list provisionally by 30th June and finally by 31st August every 2025:KER:82644 year. It is not in dispute that the petitioner's name was not in the seniority list of the school as on 01.01.2024 or as on 31.05.2024.

42. In the impugned judgment dated 29.01.2025, the learned Single Judge found that though the petitioner (appellant herein) was served with Ext.P6 order of redeployment to the parent school as HST (SS) on 29.05.2024, he could join the parent school only on 04.06.2024. Therefore, the petitioner was not a teacher of the parent school as on 01.06.2024, the date of occurrence of the vacancy of Headmaster. The petitioner was not included in the seniority list of the parent school, drawn as on 01.01.2014. As per the Rules, the supplementary list during a school year is liable to be sent before 31st May of every year. The competent authority has to approve the list provisionally by 30 th June and finally by 31st August every year. The name of the petitioner is not in the seniority list of the school as on 01.01.2024 or as on 31.05.2024. The petitioner was not physically working in 2025:KER:82644 the parent school, as on 01.06.2024, the date of the occurrence of the vacancy. Ext.P7 relieving order indicates that the petitioner was relieved from the deployed school only on 03.06.2024. Therefore, the learned Single Judge concluded that the petitioner cannot aspire to claim the post of Headmaster, which arose in the parent school on 01.06.2024. Hence, there is no illegality in Ext.P9 communication dated 15.06.2024.

44. As already noticed hereinbefore, though Ext.P6 order of the 3rd respondent Deputy Director of Education is dated 29.05.2024, the 3rd respondent signed the said order only on 03.06.2024. Therefore, based on Ext.P6 order, the appellant was relieved from KHMHSS, Alathiyoor, on 03.06.2024 AN, and he 2025:KER:82644 could rejoin the parent school, i.e., ZMHSS, Poolamangalam, only on 04.06.2024 FN. Therefore, the finding of the learned Single Judge that the petitioner (appellant herein) was served with Ext.P6 order of redeployment to the parent school as HST (SS) on 29.05.2024 is factually incorrect.