Allahabad high court reserves order on staying selection of 69,000 basic teachers

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Monday reserved its order on the question of admissibility and staying the single bench order of June 3 that stayed the selection process of 69,000 assistant basic teachers in Uttar Pradesh.
A division bench comprising Justices P K Jaiswal and D K Singh passed the order on three special appeals moved by the state government through Examination Regulatory Authority (ERA) against June 3 stay order.
‘Writs were not maintainable’
While one appeal was filed on June 5 and was scheduled to be heard on June 9, two others were filed on Monday. The bench, however, heard the three special appeals on Monday on request of the state counsel, who cited urgency in the matter as counselling was on hold.
In its appeal, ERA pleaded that the single bench interim directions were not sustainable as it did not consider the preliminary objection of maintainability in right perspective. The writs were not maintainable because the petitioners had not arrayed all successful candidates, it said. On behalf of the state government, Advocate General Raghvendra Singh also argued that ERA had the final say in case of dispute and once it takes a decision after expert opinion, it cannot be questioned.
Opposing the pleas, senior lawyers LP Mishra, HGS Parihar, Asit Chaturvedi, JN Mathur and Sudeep Seth stressed that the single bench interim order was justified.