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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP(C) No. 985 of 2023)
KAMAL SAJATI & ORS. Appellant(s)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF ASSAM & ORS. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. The appeal challenges the order dated 5th
December, 2022 passed by the Division Bench of the
Gauhati High Court at Gauhati in I.A. (Civil)/1447
of 2022, whereby the application filed by the
respondent-State for condonation of delay in filing
the appeal came to be allowed.
3. The respondent-employees had approached the
learned Single Judge of the High Court of Gauhati.
Their claim was that they are working as Sanskrit
Teachers in various private schools.
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4. It was further their case all the schools in
which they were working had been provincialized
under the provisions of the Assam Venture
Educational Institutions (Provincialisation of
Services) Act, 2011.
5. It was further their case that in pursuance
of the said enactment, the services of all other
teaching and non-teaching staff were
provincialized, except the appellants.
6. The learned Single Judge after finding that
the appellants were otherwise eligible and their
provincialisation was held up only on the ground
that there were no students taking up the subject
of Sanskrit in the last couple of years, the
reasoning given was ...