Anita Soharu Guleria vs Director Of Education& Ors. on 25 February, 2015
"3. On the basis of the admitted facts: in the form of various
appointment letters and the termination letters which have been issued
by the petitioner-school as detailed above; the provision of Rule 105 of
the Delhi School Education Act & Rules, 1973; the judgment delivered
by me in the case of Hamdard Public School Vs. Directorate of
Education and Anr. in W.P.(C) No.8652/2011 decided on 25.7.2013
interpreting Rule 105; and, the judgment of the Supreme Court in the
case of Management Committee of Montfort Senior Secondary School
Vs. Sh. Vijay Kumar and Ors., (2005) 7 SCC 472 read with Division
Bench judgment of this Court in the case of Social Jurist, a Civil
Rights Group Vs. GNCT & Ors. 147 (2008) DLT 729, the issues which
arise, and on which counsel for the parties have been heard, are first as
to whether the respondent No.1 at all can be said to only be a
contractual employee in terms of the first contractual appointment letter
dated 3.12.2007 or whether the employment of respondent No.1 since
inception in the peculiar facts of this case would have a statutory favour
in view of the provisions of the Delhi School Education Act and Rules,
1973, and secondly as to whether the actions of the petitioner-school
amount to over-reach the provision of Rule 105 and is, therefore,
against the ratio not only of the categorical language of Rule 105 but
also the ratio of the judgment passed by me in the case of Hamdard
Public School Vs. Directorate of Education and Anr. (supra). The
following issues are, therefore, crystallized for decision by this Court: