RICHA MISHRA Vs. STATE OF U. P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Sri Sandeep Dixit, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Utsav Mishra for the petitioner, Sri S. K. Kalia, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Shubham Tripathi and the Standing counsel for the respondents.

(2.) The petitioner has assailed the decision of the respondents to give charge/appointment to respondent No.6 as Head of Department of Microbiology in Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow (hereinafter referred to as the SGPGIMS) and further seeks a direction to the respondents to appoint the petitioner on the said post.

(3.) It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner was initially appointed as Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology in SGPGIMS on 24/5/2013 and subsequently she was confirmed on the said post. She was further promoted to the post of Associate Professor in Department of Microbiology under Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) on 28/12/2016 and further promoted to the next higher post of Additional Professor on 16/3/2020 on which she is presently working.