1 / 2 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPS No. 4948 of 2025 KU. RANJITA KERKETTA versus STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Order Sheet 23/06/2025 Shri Awadh Tripathi, Advocate for the Petitioner. Ms. Smita Jha, Panel Lawyer for the State. Learned counsel for the State prays for and is granted one week time to file reply in the matter. Also heard on I.A. No. 01/2025, which is an application for grant of interim relief. Learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that the there is total non-complaisance of Clause 4 of the instructions dated 02.08.2024 issued by the State Government by which the details of all the schools either of no teacher or single teacher has to be mandatorily disclosed, at the time of counseling, but certain schools of Tewanara, Risda, Darga, Bhadrapara and Kudripara have not been disclosed in the list of the school selected for rationalization. The petitioner has submitted her representation on 03.06.2024 but till date no decision has 2 / 2 been taken on her representation and the impugned order has been passed on 31.05.2025, in which she has to join upto 16.06.2025 on the new place of her posting. Therefore, the impugned order may be stayed. On the other hand, learned counsel for the State opposes and have submitted that Clause 4 of the instructions dated 02.08.2024 has duly been complied with and it is only the schools in which no teachers or single teachers should have been displayed in the list selected for the rationalization. Considering the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, purely as an interim measure it is directed that no coercive steps shall be taken by the respondents with respect to the posting of the present petitioner, till the next date of hearing. The petitioner is directed to appear before the concerned committee on 30.06.2025 and shall raise her grievance and then the committee shall take the decision on the representation made by the petitioner within three days i.e. upto 03.07.2025 after giving opportunity of hearing to the petitioner in accordance with law. List this case in the week commencing 7th July, 2025. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge Inder