Civil Writ Petition No. 11178 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 11178 of 2010 Date of decision 27.1.2011 Naresh Kumar & others ...Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Ms. Alka Chatrath, Advocate, for the petitioners. Ms. Shruti Jain, DAG, Haryana for the State. Mr.S.K.S. Bedi, Advocate, for respondent No.5. RANJIT SINGH J. The petitioners have filed this writ petition seeking quashing of the order dated 1.4.2010, whereby the petitioners are sought to be relieved from the post of Sanskrit Teachers on expiry of three months from the date of receipt of the order. The petitioners had joined on the said posts on 18.6.1998 and were confirmed on 1.8.2002. The grievance of the petitioners is that the said posts have now been illegally abolished on the ground of reduction in work load of Sanskrit subject. This order has been passed by the management Committee in its meeting held on 27.3.2010, which is being termed as illegal and arbitrary. While issuing notice of motion, the operation of impugned termination orders dated 1.4.2010 (Annexures P-6 & P-7) was stayed Civil Writ Petition No. 11178 of 2010 -2- and the petitioners were allowed to continue in service till further orders. No reply has been filed either by the State or by the Management. However, Mr. Bedi appearing for the School, submits that petitioners have an equally efficacious alternative remedy of filing appeal before the Director General against the impugned orders. This fact is not in serious dispute. Since against the impugned orders, the petitioners have remedy of filing appeal before the Director General, the petitioners, accordingly, are relegated to the remedy of pursuing their appeal, which they have statedly filed. If the petitioners have so far not filed the appeal, they would be at liberty to file the same within a period of two weeks from today. The interim order dated 29.6.2010 passed by this Court shall continue till the application of the interim order of the petitioners is decided by the appellate authority. If the petitioners are still aggrieved against any order, they would be at liberty to approach this Court again. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. January 27 , 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) monika JUDGE