Srinagar, May 23 -- Allowing two appeals in this regard, a Division Bench of Justices Sanjeev Kumar and Sanjay Parihar set aside its single bench's verdict 31 December 2014 which had concluded that that there was nothing wrong in the Government taking a policy decision to confer the benefit of seniority upon the ReTs on their regularization with effect from the date they were initially engaged.

"As a consequence, ...the impugned provisio, to the extent it provides that "the five years service rendered by Rehbar-e-Taleem teachers before regularization shall count for the purpose of fixing their seniority" is set aside," the Division Bench said while allowing the appeals filed by aggrieved General Line teachers through advocate Tasaduq H. ...