The Correspondent v. the State of Tamil Nadu
Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court, Madurai Bench; W.P.(MD).No.20705 of 2019; decided 28.08.2025 by Justice K. Rajasekar. Petitioner: Correspondent, Arunachalam Higher Secondary School, Thiruvattar, Kanyakumari District. Challenge under Article 226 to staff fixation for 2018-2019 declaring multiple teaching and non-teaching posts surplus. No merits decided; petition closed as not pressed following refixation of staff strength based on student strength; no order as to costs. Useful only as precedent for closure of writ petitions on refixation/infructuity; not citable on the legality of staff fixation.
What did the court decide?
Recording the submission that, pending the writ petition, staff strength had been refixed based on student strength and the petitioner was not willing to pursue the writ petition, the Court closed the writ petition with no order as to costs, and closed the connected miscellaneous petitions.