S PERIANDY Vs. UNION TERRITORY OF PUDUCHERRY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner has filed the present writ petition, challenging the appointment made in favour of the third respondent dated 23.11.2010 as the Principal of Rajiv Gandhi Arts and Science College, Puducherry and for a consequential direction to the second respondent to appoint the petitioner, as according to him was fully qualified to hold the post in terms of the UGC Regulations 2010.

(2.) WHEN the matter came up on 11.01.2011, private notice was directed to be served on the respondents. On notice, the second respondent has filed a counter affidavit dated 28.03.2011 and the third respondent has filed a counter affidavit dated 18.03.2011.

(3.) IT is the case of the petitioner that he was working as the Assistant Professor in Physics at Tagore Arts College, Puducherry. He had done M.Sc Physics in Electronics in the Madras University, M.Phil in Solid State Physics. Thereafter, he got Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications in Alagappa University and finally, he got Ph.D in Molecular Spectroscopy from Pondicherry University in the year 1999. He also claimed that he has 22 years of teaching experience at College level and 11 years of Research experience after his Ph.D degree. He had published 30 papers in various National and International Journals and he had produced 20 M.Phil students and he has so far guided 10 Ph.D students.