Salem Advocate Bar Association,Tamil ... vs Union Of India on 2 August, 2005
14. Learned advocates
for the District Primary Education Officers have taken the stand to
contest these petitions. Learned advocates for the petitioners have
raised serious grievance against such a stand of the field officers.
There is some substance in the grievance of the petitioners in this
regard, however, when this Court has found that this is the
Directorate of Primary Education who is the Head of Department of
these field officers, has taken such an adamant, illegal and even
contemptuous stand, to make any observation against field officers,
would be less justified. The stand of Director of Primary Education
on the face of various orders of this Court which are referred
above, is worth initiating contempt proceedings against him.
However, it is left to the Government in Education Department to
look into the matter with due seriousness and do needful against
erring officers. For the present, by awarding cost to the tune of
Rs. 5000/- payable to each petitioner, the matter is left there.