IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 916 (SS) of 2007 Chandra Prakash, S/o Sri Budh Singh, At present posted as Assistant Teacher, In Primary School Bhagwanpur, Raipur, District-Dehradun. ……….Petitioner. Versus 1. State of Uttarakhand, through its Secretary, School, Education, Dehradun. 2. Director, School Education, Sate of Uttarakhand, Dehradun. 3. District Education Officer, Dehradun. 4. Additional District Education Officer (Basic), Dehradun. ……..Respondents. Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri I. P.Gairola, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Paresh Tripathi, learned counsel for State of Uttarakhand on behalf of respondents. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs: i. issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of Certiorari quashing the impugned order dated 23.06.2007 (annexure no. 2) passed by respondent no. 4, so far as it relates to the petitioner. ii. Issue a writ, order or direction in nature of Mandamus commanding the respondents not to interfere in the peaceful functioning of the petitioner as Assistant Teacher in Junior High School, Bhagwanpur (Block- Raipur), District- Dehradun. iii. Issue a suitable, writ, order or direction, which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the circumstance of the case. iv Award the cost of the petition in favour of the petitioner. During the course of argument, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that petitioner may be permitted to make representation before Additional District Education Officer (Basic), Dehradun and Additional District Education Officer (Basic), Dehradun may be directed to decide the representation of the petitioner within a particular period. The prayer is innocuous. Accordingly, I direct the petitioner to make representation before Additional District Education Officer (Basic), Dehradun, raising all his grievances within a period of ten days from today and Additional District Education Officer (Basic), Dehradun is directed to take decision on the representation of the petitioner within a period of two weeks from the date of production of certified copy of this order along with representation. With this direction, writ petition as well as stay application no. nil of 2007 is disposed of. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J) July 19, 2007 SKS