SHAGUPTA MOIN Vs. ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Shri Ravi Kant, Senior Counsel assisted by Shri S.A. Murtaza for the Petitioners. Smt. Sunita Agrawal appears for Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Shri M.C. Tripathi appears for Respondent No. 3. Shri B.D. Mandhyan, Senior Counsel assisted by Shri Satish Mandhyan appears for the Respondent No. 4. Shri Ashok Khare, Senior Counsel assisted by Shri Faheem Ahmad appears for the Respondent No. 5.

(2.) Dr. (Mrs.) Shagupta Moin (Petitioner No. 1) and Dr. Abdul Faiz Faizy (Petitioner No. 2) are M.B.B.S. and M.D. in Bio-Chemistry from the Department of Bio-Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh of the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. They were appointed as Lecturers in the same Faculty of the Medical College and are presently serving as Readers (now designated as Associate Professor) in Bio-Chemistry in the same department. Their degrees are known as Degrees in Medical Bio-Chemistry.

(3.) Dr. M.U. Siddhiqui-Respondent No. 2; Dr. Khushtar A. Salman-Respondent No. 3; Najmul Islam-Respondent No. 4 and Dr. Khursheed Alam-Respondent No. 5, are M. Sc. and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Life Sciences of the same University. They are also teaching as Readers (now designated as Associate Professors) in the same Faculty of Medicine in the Medical College. They are seniors to the Petitioners and have at some point of time taught them, when the Petitioners were pursuing the M.D. Course in Bio-Chemistry.