SHANKAR SHARAN Vs. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The averments made in the present writ petition are as follows:

(2.) The petitioner completed the masters degree in Political Science from Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur,Bihar intheyearl983 and, thereafter, he taught Political Science in Maramchi College, Maramchi, Patna, Bihar from September, 1983 to luly. 1987. While teaching in the said College, the petitioner went to U.S.S.R. (Russia) to study Soviet Political System in the yea r 1985 and stayed there till 1986 and completed the course from the Institute of Social Science, Moscow.

(3.) The petitioner thereafter appeared in All India Entrance Test conducted by the respondent-University for the M.Phil. Programme in Soviet Studies and completed the course achieving a good grade equivalent to 71% marks in the year 1990. Thereafter, he was awarded Junior Research Fellowship and became eligiblef or lecturership as per the U.G.C. guidelines. He was further awarded Senior Research Fellowship during 1989-92 and after completing the M.Phil. Course in the year 1993 the petitioner joined Ph. D. programme in the same centre and submitted his Ph. D. thesis titled Democratic Centralism : A Study of Theory and Practice of Soviet Party Organisation to the Dean of School of International Studies on 20th July, 1993.