IRA PANDIT Vs. UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner Dr. Ira Pandit and the respondent No.4 Dr.Tista Bagchi are competing as pirants to the post of Reader in Linguistics in University of Delhi. The respondent No.4 having been selected, the petitioner approached this court just on the eve of the respondent No.4 being delivered with letter of appointment.

(2.) On 12.3.1993 the University of Delhi notified an advertisement inviting applications inter alia for the post of Reader in Linguistic. Consistently with the University Calendar the academic and other qualifications needed to apply for the post of Reader were:-

(3.) The petitioner does not dispute the respondent No.4 being possessed of all the requisit educational qualifications. In fact the learned counsel for the petitioner termed the academic achievement of the respondent No.4 as 'impeccable'. The core of controversy clusters around the question - if the experience possessed by respondent No.4 satisfies the requirement of five years' experience of teaching of under graduate/post graduate classes, within the meaning of the phrase as occuring in eligibility qualifications. That is the frontal and rather singular attack on impugned selection of respondent No.4.