KERALA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Vs. B K JAYACHANDRAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) LEAVE granted.

(2.) WHETHER respondents are entitled to obtain the benefit of Scale of Pay in terms of the University Grants Commission (for short, "UGC") guidelines is the question involved in these appeals. They arise out of a judgment and order dated 3.4.2008 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala at Ernakulum in Writ Appeal Nos. 660, 680 and 748 of 2008, dismissing the appeals preferred by the appellant herein against the judgment and order dated 14.11.2007 passed by a learned single judge of the said Court in Writ Petition (Civil) Nos. 13572, 10496 and 13543 of 2006.

(3.) IT is furthermore not in dispute that a notification was issued by the appellant - University on or about 21.3.1995 pursuant whereto or in furtherance whereof, inter alia the following was provided: