SHRADDHA KUMARI Vs. LUCKNOW UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner is Head of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Law in the Lucknow University since July, 1981. The Deanship rotates every three years. She had earlier also held this post between 1972 and 1976. The Executive Council of the University has set up an inquiry against her, and this writ petition has been directed against the said decision of the Executive Council.

(2.) The relevant facts are as follows : -

(3.) Then on 7-1-1983 the Vice-Chancellor passed an order appointing a committee of two persons, Sri H. K. Seth and Sri Jiwan Kaul (opposite parties 9 and 7 respectively), to look into the working and allied matters of the Law Faculty. This is annexure-8. The petitioner's grievance is that her suggestions for disciplinary action against Sri Tandan and for decision on the question whether salary was to be paid for the strike period or not had not been looked into, and instead, an inquiry was set up into the working of the Faculty, indirectly putting the petitioner in the dock.