{"id":7303,"date":"2025-10-15T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/hc-reinforces-rights-of-employees-who-acquire-disability-orders-reassignment-not-termination\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:05:28","slug":"hc-reinforces-rights-of-employees-who-acquire-disability-orders-reassignment-not-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/?p=7303","title":{"rendered":"HC Reinforces Rights of Employees Who Acquire Disability: Orders \u2018Reassignment Not Termination\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Allahabad High Court in a notable ruling has reinforced that government employees who become disabled during their service cannot be dismissed. Justice Abdul Moin ruled that they must be given a suitable post, as per the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. This decision protects the rights of differently-abled workers and ensures they are treated fairly at work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Background: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Having worked as an Assistant Teacher since 2013, the petitioner had a brain stroke on 2 August 2016, resulting in inability to carry on with his teaching duties. He was refused reinstatement when he attempted to rejoin in August 2024. The respondents formed a committee to examine the case of the petitioner which submitted its report on 9.10.2024, as per which it has been indicated that as the petitioner is unable to carry out teaching work on account of not being able to write or to speak, teaching work as such cannot be expected from him and he cannot be permitted to join. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">The counsel for the petitioner presented that the rights provided by the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 give the petitioner a right to be offered an equivalent or an alternative position, instead of termination outright.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">However, counsel for the respondents argued that the petitioner remained absent from the institution since 1.10.2021 and after a period of 3 years he made a representation on 30.8.2024 for the purpose of being permitted to join which has not found favour with the respondents on account of he having absented himself.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Moreover, as per the committee&rsquo;s report dated 9.10.2024, the petitioner was found medically unfit for any teaching work due to his inability to speak, read, or write, and therefore cannot be allowed to rejoin, they asserted.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><strong style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Court&rsquo;s Observation:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Section 20(4) of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 is one of the sections that is specifically referred to by Justice Abdul Moin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">&ldquo;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><em>Thus from perusal of the provisions of the Act, 2016 it is apparent that where an employee acquires a disability during his service, his services are not to be dispensed with rather efforts are to be made by the employer for shifting him to a suitable post and in the absence thereto, to continue him on supernumerary post until a suitable post is available,&rdquo;stated the judge.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The bench also cited the Supreme Court ruling in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><em>Ch. Joseph vs <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong><em>The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation &amp; other<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>,<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> repeating that the relevant legal framework <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>must be modified and not rejected<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> in the case of employees that get disabled in the course of service.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The court emphasized, &ldquo;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><em>When a disability is acquired in the course of service, the legal framework must respond not with exclusion but with adjustment. The duty of a public employer is not merely to discharge functionaries, but to preserve human potential where it continues to exist. The law does not permit the severance of service by the stroke of a medical certificate without first exhausting the possibility of meaningful redeployment. Such obligation is not rooted in compassion, but in constitutional discipline and statutory expectation<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">.&quot; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><strong style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt\">Court&rsquo;s Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The bench directed the District Inspector of Schools, Barabanki, to comply with the legal mandate and the precedent set in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><em>Ch. Joseph<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"> by identifying a suitable alternative post for the petitioner. If no such post is available, the judge stated that the petitioner must be accommodated in a supernumerary post in accordance with the law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Additionally, the bench <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:15pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">directed that the period between the petitioner&rsquo;s absence and the issuance of an order for alternative appointment, in compliance with this judgment, should be regularized by the authorities as per the applicable rules.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <hr \/>\n \n <p><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">Case Title: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in\/elegalix\/WebDownloadJudgmentDocument.do?judgmentID=12705359\" style=\"text-decoration-line: none;\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">Laljee v. 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