Chandigarh, March 1 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered a Gurugram-based school to pay Rs.34 lakh in compensation to a teacher who was illegally terminated in 2017.

The bench of justice Tribhuvan Dahiya held that the school is undisputedly a private educational institution, not getting any grant-in-aid from the government, and accordingly, the contract of service between the teacher and the management does not fall within the realm of public law and that it does not show that the terms of contract were regulated in terms of any statutory requirements. Accordingly, the teacher cannot be held entitled to reinstatement in service, but is entitled to monetary compensation instead, the court ruled.

The petitioner, Pawan Kumar, a...