1. ' AMIR HANI MUSLIM, J.--- It is an admitted position that the petitioners are still working in the department-and salaries have not been released to them on the intervention of the Finance Department. According to Mirza Imam Ali Baig the Regional Director Colleges Hyderabad, till date the petitioners are performing their duties and they have not been removed from service but they have not been paid salaries, for which the Education Secretary is authorized.
2. We could not understand as to how a person in service can be stopped salary on the ground that he has been unauthorized appointed and he is also allowed to work. As long as a person after appointment is working in the Department, his salary cannot be stopped. Law provides procedure for removal of a civil servant which the government should follow. We in the given circumstances, direct the respondents and the Finance department to release the salaries of the petitioners forthwith and they will continue to get their salaries as long as they are not removed from the Department in accordance with law. We may observe that such instruction of the finance department to withhold salaries of the petitioner, without their removal from service in accordance with law, is contrary to the Civil Servants Law. We in future, if confronted with such an eventuality would take action against the finance department. Non compliance of any of the directives of this Court will expose the concerned officials to contempt proceedings. Compliance to be made within 15 days.
3. ' The petition stands disposed of in the above terms.