PRADEEP CHAUDHARY Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned Counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE petitioner has prayed for a writ of certiorari to quash the impugned notification dated 4-4-2000 issued by the UGC vide Annexure-2 to the writ petition and the Conditions No. 2 and 3 of the advertisement dated 4-8-2003 issued by the Meerut University vide Annexure-6 to the writ petition. THE petitioner has also prayed for a mandamus directing the respondents to consider the petitioner's candidature for appointment as a lecturer in Statistics in the University.

(3.) WE may mention that fixing the minimum eligibility requirement for appointment as lecturer is exclusively in the domain of the expert academic bodies like UGC and this Court cannot sit in appeal over the decisions of such academic bodies. This Court must exercise restraint in these matters, for the Court does not have expertise in such matters. As observed by the Supreme Court in Tata Cellular v. Union of India, AIR 1996 SC 11, this Court cannot sit in appeal over administrative decisions as it does not have expertise in such matters. The modern trend points to judicial restraint in such matters.