AKSHAJBAR LAL RAMDEO MISRA GOPAL TRIPATHI SHRI GANESH PRASAD SINGH SHRI RADHEY SHYAM SHARMA RAM YASH ROY SHRI RAM VYAS PANDEY GAURI SHANKAR TIWARI Vs. VICE CHANCELLOR BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY:VICE CHANCELLOR BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY:VICE CHANCELLOR BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY:VICE CHANCELLOR BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY:VICE CHANCELLOR BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE following Judgment of the courtwas delivered by

(2.) THESE are eight appeals against thejudgment and decree of the High court of Allahabad dated 15/07/1960, with special leave granted by this court. Bythe writ petitions, which failed before the High court, theappellants had asked that Resolutions Nos. 90, 94 to 96 and99 to 102 passed by the Executive council of the BanarasHindu University on 15/05/1960, terminating their servicesfrom 1/06/1960, be quashed. The names of the appellants,the posts they held and the gist of the Resolutions passedagainst them have been set down below : <FRM>JUDGEMENT_619_AIR(SC)_1961Html1.htm</FRM>

(3.) UNDER the powers granted by this Statute and after sundryprocedure, the Solicitor-General sent up the cases of theappellants (and some others, who are not before us) to theReviewing Committee. The appellants appeared before theReviewing Committee and represented their cases. Except inthe case of Mr. Radhey Shyam Sharma (Civil Appeal No. 484 of1960), whose case was kept pending because certain matterswere sub judice, the Reviewing Committee sent its findingsto the University. These findings were considered inrespect of the four appellants in Group I (above), and on 13/02/1960, the Executive council passed ResolutionsNos. 436 to 439 calling upon them to show cause why theirservices be not terminated, in view of the findings of theReviewing Committee that the continuance in office of thoseappellants was detrimental to the interests of theUniversity, which the Executive council had accepted. Thesefour appellants showed cause on 5/03/1960, No noticeswere, however, sent to the four appellants in Group IIabove, and this is one distinguishing feature in the cases.