Kantilal S/O Jairam More and Ors. v. the State of Maharashtra Thr Its Principal Secretary School Education and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Kantilal More v. State of Maharashtra, Bombay High Court, Civil Writ Petition No.6206 of 2024, decided 08-01-2026 (Ghuge & Mantri, JJ.) | Keywords: Shalarth ID; salary arrears; Assistant Teachers; Scheduled Tribes; Education Officer (primary); Deputy Director (Education) Nashik; Zilla Parishad Nashik; blank/missing proposal date; approval proposal routing; salary release directions; fraud verification; liberty to challenge; followed earlier order in Nilambari Dhananjay Buchude (WP 11615/2024, order dated 21-03-2025); writ disposed with directions; Maharashtra school education service matters.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed with directions: Education Officer (primary), ZP Nashik to scrutinize the approval-proposal file for the missing proposal date and report to the Deputy Director (Education), Nashik within three weeks; Deputy Director (Education) to verify the Shalarth ID allocation within six weeks of that report; if documents and orders are in order, salaries inclusive of arrears to be released within 30 days of the Deputy Director's decision; if fraud is noticed, appropriate orders to be passed and communicated to the Management, with liberty to the Management or Petitioners to challenge adverse decisions as permissible in law.