DAV MODEL SCHOOL & ANR. vs DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION & ORS.

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$~1 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + LPA 21/2025, CM APPL. 1560/2025, CM APPL. 1561/2025 & CM APPL. 1562/2025 DAV MODEL SCHOOL & ANR. .....Appellants Through: Mr. Atul Kumar, Adv. versus DIRECTORATE OF EDUCATION & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. K.S. Kashyap, Adv. for R-4 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 30.01.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. This appeal is directed against order dated 8 October 2024 passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court in WP(C) 4431/2017. 2. The aforesaid writ petition was preferred by one Neetu Kumar, who is Respondent 4 herein, for a direction to the appellant school to release her salary in the grade of Trained Graduate Teacher w.e.f. 19 September 2006. During the course of the proceedings, however, Respondent 4 pressed the relief only with respect to grant of financial upgradations under the Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACP) as prayed in prayer clause (iv) and (v) of the writ petition. 3. During the course of the writ petition, the following order came Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT LPA 21/2025 Page 1 of 5 KUMAR Signing Date:03.02.2025 12:46:27 to be passed by this Court on 29 August 2019. “On 25.09.2017, ld. counsel for the petitioner stated before the Court that the school may grant benefits of Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACP) to her. Today, ld. counsel for the petitioner, on instructions, submits that the petitioner asserts the relief limited to the said aspect, with the consequential reliefs as prayed in clause (iv) and (v). During the course of hearing, ld. counsel for the respondents concedes that the petitioner is entitled to second MACP from July, 2017. In the given factual conspectus and the totality of the fact