- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, DHARWAD BENCH DATED THIS THE 11TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA WRIT PETITION NO. 100057 OF 2022 (S-TR) BETWEEN: MALLESH SON OF KOMBARI NAIK, AGE: 35 YEARS, OCCUPATION: SERVICE, RESIDENT OF LIG HOUSE NO. 542, 14TH CROSS, NAVANAGAR HUBBLLI, 580025. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. SHUBHENDU A. AKALWADI, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR, PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONS DIET BUILDING, HALYAL ROAD, DHARWAD. 2. THE MANAGEMENT OF SHRI. JAGADGURU SHRI SHIANAND PROUDH SHALE BHAIREDEVARKOPPA NAVANAGAR HUBBALLI, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY. 3. THE COMMISSIONER FOR EDUCATION DHARWAD, DIET BUILDING, HALYAL ROAD, DHARWAD. …RESPONDENTS (BY SMT. KIRTHILATA R. PATIL, HCGP FOR R1 & R3, NOTICE TO R2 IS SERVED) Digitally signed by VISHAL NINGAPPA PATTIHAL Location: High Court of Karnataka, Dharwad Bench, Dharwad - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLE 226 AND 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA IS PRAYING TO NECESSARY ORDER OR WRIT IN THE NATURE OF WRIT OF CERTIORARI QUASHING THE ORDER PASSED BY RESPONDENT NO.3 THE COMMISSIONER AND THE APPELLANT AUTHORITY PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONS DHARWAD DAETD 15TH FEBRUARY 2021 AT ANNEXURE-F. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING IN ‘B’ GROUP, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: ORAL ORDER (PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.NAGAPRASANNA) 1. The petitioner is before this Court calling in question an order dated 15.02.2021. 2. Heard the learned counsel Sri Shubhendu A. Akalwadi appearing for the petitioner and the learned HCGP Smt.Kirthilata R. Patil appearing for the respondent- State. 3. Facts in brief germane are as follows: 4. The issue revolves around a narrow compass as the challenge is to the deployment of the petitioner from ‘A’ institution to ‘B’ institution, on the score that he has become an excess teacher in ‘A’ institution. The - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 deployment is accepted, and the petitioner is now working in ‘B’ institution. ‘A’ institution in the case at hand is the respondent No.2, and the ‘B’ institution is Shri Channabasaveshwara Proudha Shale, Aralikatti. 5. The petitioner is a government teacher is not in dispute. He joins service on 05.06.2013. On 25.08.2019, he comes to be declared as excess teacher. Pursuant to the declaration of the petitioner being an excess teacher, a consequential order comes to be passed on 24.10.2019, deploying the petitioner from ‘A’ institution to ‘B’ institution. The petitioner joins the institution ‘B’ and is said to be teaching in the said institution. At the time when the petitioner was declared to be an excess teacher, the institution is said to have replied to the notice dated 15.08.2019 by observing that the petitioner is not an excess teacher, he is the only teacher teaching mathematics in the high school and due to dearth of staff, he is also teaching a science subject. The communication to the 2nd respondent reads as follows: - 4 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 “UÉ, ªÀiÁ£Àå PÉëÃvÀæ ²PÀëuÁ¢üPÁjUÀ¼ÀÄ, UÁæ«ÄÃt ªÀ®AiÀÄ, ºÀħâ½î EªÀjUÉ «µÀAiÀÄ: £ÀªÀÄä ¥ËæqsÀ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è ºÉZÀÄѪÀj JAzÀÄ UÀÄgÀÄw¹zÀ ²PÀëPÀgÀ£ÀÄß £ÀªÀÄä ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è ªÀÄÄAzÀĪÀgɸÀĪÀAvÉ «£ÀAw¥ÀǪÀðPÀ DPÉëÃ¥ÀuÉ PÀÄjvÀÄ. 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E£ÉÆߪÀð ²PÀëPÀgÀÄ £ÀªÀÄä ¥ËæqsÀ ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è ¸ÀºÀ ²PÀëPÀgÁV ¸ÉÃªÉ ¸À°è¸ÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ ºÁUÀÆ UÀtÂvÀ «µÀAiÀĪÀ£ÀÄß ¨sÉÆâ¸ÀÄwÛgÀĪÀ ²æà ªÀįÉèñÀ PÉ. £ÁAiÀÄÌ EªÀgÀ£ÀÄß ¸ÀºÀ ºÉZÀÄѪÀj JAzÀÄ UÀÄgÀÄw¹zÀ ²PÀëPÀgÀ£ÀÄß £ÀªÀÄä ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è EªÀjUÀÆ ºÉaÑ£À PÁAiÀÄð¨sÁgÀ EgÀĪÀÅzÀjAzÀ EªÀgÀ ¸ÉÃªÉ CªÀ±Àå EgÀÄvÀÛzÉ ¸ÀzÀj ²PÀëPÀgÀÄ UÀtÂvÀ «µÀAiÀĪÀ£ÀÄß vÉUÉzÀÄPÉÆAqÀÄ eÉÆvÉUÉ «eÁÕ£À «µÀAiÀĪÀ£ÀÄß ¸ÀºÀ ¨sÉÆâ¸ÀÄwÛzÁÝgÉ. - 5 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 EªÀgÀÄ £ÀªÀÄä ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è MlÄÖ 24 ¨sÉÆÃzÀ£Á CªÀ¢üUÀ¼À PÁAiÀÄð¨ÁgÀ EgÀĪÀzÀjAzÀ EªÀgÀ ¸ÉÃªÉ £ÀªÀÄUÉ CªÀ±Àå«gÀÄvÀÛzÉ." £ÀªÀÄä ±Á¯ÉAiÀÄ°è EªÀjUÉ ºÉaÑ£À PÁAiÀÄðªÁgÀ EgÀĪÀzÀjAzÀ ¸ÀzÀj ²PÀëPÀgÀÄUÀ¼À£ÀÄß ±ÉÊPÀëtÂPÀ ºÁUÀÆ ªÀÄPÀ̼À »vÀzÀȶ֬ÄAzÀ ºÉZÀÄѪÀj ¥ÀnÖ¬ÄAzÀ PÉÊ©qÀ®Ä vÀªÀÄä°è «£ÀAiÀÄ¥ÀǪÀðPÀªÁV «£ÀAw¹PÉƼÀÄîvÉÛãÉ. ªÀAzÀ£ÉUÀ¼ÉÆA¢UÉ, ¨sÉÊjzÉêÀgÀPÉÆ¥Àà ¢:16.08.2019 ¸À»/- ªÀÄÄSÁå¥ÁzsÁåAiÀÄgÀÄ ²æÃ.dUÀzÀÄÎgÀÄ ²ªÁ£ÀAzÀ ¥ËæqsÀ ±Á¯É ¨sÉÊjzÉêÀgÀPÉÆ¥Àà” 6. This is issued immediately on the notice being issued to the ‘A’ institution on 15.08.2019. No action is taken. He is deployed. The petitioner goes and reports to ‘B’ institution and is said to be working in the said institution. The resultant action is that the students at the ‘A’ institution are now put to jeopardy due to the inaction on the part of the State. 7. The learned counsel for the petitioner places on record the vacancy position for the year 2024-25 in ‘A’ institution, which clearly shows that there is nobody to teach mathematics notwithstanding the fact that the students are available in the high school afore-quoted. - 6 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 Therefore, the State by a stroke of pen appears to have placed the students in ‘A’ institution at jeopardy for the reasons not tenable in law. 8. In that light, despite the vehement opposition of the learned HCGP, I deem it appropriate to pass the following: ORDER i. Petition is allowed in part. ii. The order of the deployment dated 15.02.2021 vide Annexure-F passed by the respondent No.3 stands quashed. iii. The respondent-State shall now re-consider the deployment of the petitioner, looking into the students strength in ‘A’ institution and ‘B’ institution and place the petitioner back in ‘A’ institution, if there is work in real time, and there is no teacher to teach mathematics subject. - 7 - NC: 2025:KHC-D:2657 WP No. 100057 of 2022 iv. All of which shall be complied with within three months from the date of receipt of copy of the order. Ordered accordingly. Sd/- (M.NAGAPRASANNA) JUDGE KGK List No.: 1 Sl No.: 15