STATE OF PUNJAB Vs. R N BHATNAGAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEAVE granted.

(2.) BY consent of learned Counsel for the parties, we have heard this appeal finally and the same is being disposed of by this judgment. The short question involved in this appeal is as to how the quota and rota rule for recruiting Professors in the Department of Ophthalmology in the Medical College belonging to the appellant-State of Punjab is to be operated. The relevant factual matrix for deciding this controversy may be noted at the outset.

(3.) IT is now time for us to note the main contentions canvassed by learned Counsel for the appellant-State of Punjab Shri H. K. Puri and also by learned Senior Counsel Shri P. P. Rao for the intervenor who is a prospective direct recruit candidate for the said post on the one hand and the rival contentions canvassed by learned Counsel for the respondent original writ petitioner on the other.