LAWS(SC)-1990-3-77

NEELIMA MISRA Vs. HARINDER KAUR PAINTAL

Decided On March 21, 1990
NEELIMA MISRA Appellant
V/S
HARINDER KAUR PAINTAL Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Special leave granted.

(2.) The Chancellor of the Lucknow University while exercising power under Section 31(8)(a) of the Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973 ("the Act') has directed that Km. Neelima Misra, the appellant herein should be appointed as Reader in Psychology in the University. That order has been quashed by the High Court of Allahabad, Lucknow Bench in Writ Petn. No. 2777 of 1978 at the instance of Dr. Harinder Kaur Paintal, respondent (1). This appeal is from that judgment of the High Court.

(3.) The background of the case in the barest outline may be stated as under :