State Of Punjab And Ors vs Dev Raj & Ors

The Supreme Court held that the Punjab and Haryana High Court erred in dismissing the Letters Patent Appeal concerning the absorption of teachers and laboratory assistants in a school taken over by the State Government. The Court emphasized that only those staff members who were employed at the time of the government's decision to take over the school on 28.6.1983 were entitled to be absorbed, as per the conditions laid out in the government order. The Court set aside the High Court's order and directed that the respondents, who were not part of the staff at the relevant time, could not be absorbed in government service.