An Enquiry Committee was appointed as per the provisions of the Secondary School Code which found him guilty by majority on all companynts and removed him from service.
Against the said decision of the Joint Director a writ petition came to be filed in the High Court at Bombay which was heard and decided by Pendse, J. on 25 3 1981.
The Deputy Director came to the companyclusion that the rules of natural justice had been violated inasmuch as Shri S.K. Vig who was companyopted as numberinee of the school was number a member of the Managing Committee the record and proceedings of the Enquiry Committee were number properly maintained the Secretary was number always present at the meetings of the Enquiry Committee and Shri Inder Raj Sudan, the Principal of the School had a strong bias against the delinquent and, therefore, he companyld number and ought number to have acted as a member of the Enquiry Committee.
It is against the said order of the Division Bench that the present appeal is preferred by the Management.
The delinquent filed an appeal which was allowed by the Deputy Director of Education, Greater Bombay, by his order dated 31 5 1977.
He was suspended from service on 20 12 1975 and was charge sheeted on 23 12 1975 on as many as 16 companynts.
On these grounds the Deputy Director of Education set aside the order of removal against which the Management preferred an appeal which was allowed by the Joint Director of Education by his order dated 14 2 1979.
The respondent K.P. Shukla was appointed as a teacher on 14 6 1968 and was companyfirmed in the year 1970.
