Ravishankar @ Ravi Choubey vs The State Of Madhya Pradesh on 11 September, 2023
In this backdrop, it cannot be said that a holder of a Class-III or
Class-IV and Group-C or Group-D post having been appointed as in the
present case by the authority conferred by the Legislature, which has resulted in
promulgation of the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Shiksha Karmis (Recruitment
and Conditions of Service) Rules 1997 and the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat
Samvida Shala Shikshak (Appointment and Conditions of Contract) Rules,
2001, as the case may be, cannot be said to be not holder of the "Public
Office" and, therefore, reliance placed by Shri Pushpendra Dubey on the
judgment of a Coordinate Bench of this High Court in Writ Petition
No.6608/2020 (Ravishankar Chouksey versus State of Madhya Pradesh
& Others) decided on 19.7.2021 (supra) is misplaced because merely a
person is a Class-IV or Class-III employee, will not be excluded from the
definition of the "Public Office".