G.M.Ramakrishna v. the State of Karnataka
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: Gram Sahayak appointment; accepted resignation; reinstatement of a resignee unsustainable; appointment without due application of mind; efflux of time; five-year term expiring; fresh recruitment; notification dated 04/6th March, 1978; Tahasildhar; Madhugiri Taluk; Tumkuru District; Bhaktarahalli Revenue Circle; Articles 226 and 227 Constitution of India; writ of certiorari; Karnataka High Court; NC: 2025:KHC:15859. Useful for: challenges to appointment of a person who had previously resigned as Gram Sahayak; effect of an accepted resignation on purported reinstatement; termination of a fixed-term appointment by efflux of time.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed on terms: the impugned order appointing respondent No.5 is held unsustainable; the petitioner's appointment is held to have ended by efflux of time on expiry of the five-year term; the question of the petitioner's continuation is left open; respondent No.4 may invite fresh applications in accordance with the notification dated 04/6th March, 1978.