https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152764 A contractual termination clause in an aided school could not override a mandatory statutory safeguard requiring a disciplinary inquiry before dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. The terminations were treated as punitive, following an abandoned inquiry and a change in management, and were held to be mala fide, colourable and void. The aided school and the statutory authorities were also held amenable to writ jurisdiction because the authorities acted quasi-judicially under the statute and the school was subject to substantial State funding and pervasive control. The impugned termination orders and adverse decisions were set aside, with reinstatement, continuity of service and back wages directed. en-us Wed, 19 Dec 1984 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:50:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152764 A contractual termination clause in an aided school could not override a mandatory statutory safeguard requiring a disciplinary inquiry before dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. The terminations were treated as punitive, following an abandoned inquiry and a change in management, and were held to be mala fide, colourable and void. The aided school and the statutory authorities were also held amenable to writ jurisdiction because the authorities acted quasi-judicially under the statute and the school was subject to substantial State funding and pervasive control. The impugned termination orders and adverse decisions were set aside, with reinstatement, continuity of service and back wages directed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 19 Dec 1984 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=152764