P SINGARAVEL Vs. DIRECTOR OF COLLEGIATE EDUCATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE proceedings of the first respondent in Mu. Mu. No. 34418/f1/07, dated 10. 01. 2008, according approval for appointment of fifth respondent as Principal of the fourth respondent college, are under challenge in this Writ Petition.

(2.) PETITIONER joined as a Lecturer in June,1974, in the fourth respondent college and, in 1988, obtained Ph. D. Degree from University of Madras and was elevated as the Head of the Department of Commerce. He also served as Deputy Warden of the college hostel for three years and Warden for one year. He was also appointed as Principal in-charge by the fourth respondent college for some period in the year 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.

(3.) ON 31. 01. 2007 when the vacancy for the post of Principal arose, one N. C. Chandrasekaran, the fifth respondent, who ran eighth to the petitioner, was promoted as Principal of the college, subject to the approval of the first respondent, vide fourth respondent's resolution dated 20. 04. 2007. Aggrieved over the same, the petitioner preferred an appeal to the first respondent on 26. 04. 2007 and since no response was forthcoming, he filed W. P. No. 30778 of 2007, whereupon this Court, on 24. 09. 2007, directed the first respondent to consider the appeal of the petitioner within a period of six weeks. Thereafter, the appeal was dismissed by the first respondent on 10. 01. 2008, according approval to the appointment of fifth respondent as Principal of the fourth respondent college. Hence, this Writ Petition.