Kapil Prakash Deshmukh v. the State of Maharashtra through the Secretary, Dept. of Edu. and Sports and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Teachers' salaries through State salary grants contingent on TET/C-TET qualification; payment limited to percentage of salary grant and commencing from date of acquiring C-TET/TET. Bombay HC disposes Writ Petitions 17397/2024 and 17400/2024 (07.10.2025), relying on Supreme Court Civil Appeal No. 1385 of 2025 (Anjuman Ishaat-E-Taleem Trust, dated 01.09.2025), Sagar Dattatray Chorghe (WP 7943/2023) and this Court's ruling in Sagar Gopichand Bahire (WP 4904/2020). Petitioners stated to be outside the 2018-2019 TET Exam Result Scam and C-TET qualified. Zilla Parishad to scrutinize each case and forward proposals to Competent Authority within 60 days; payment cleared only from dates of acquiring TET/C-TET.
What did the court decide?
Directions issued: the Zilla Parishad to scrutinize each Petitioner's case in terms of the dates on which they acquired their TET or C-TET qualification and, after confirming the position, forward proposals for payment of salaries to the extent of the salary grants extended by the Government to the Zilla Parishad to the Competent Authority, which shall clear payment only with effect from the dates of acquiring TET/C-TET qualifications; the exercise to be completed by the Zilla Parishad within 60 days and the proposal forwarded to the Competent Authority for approval.