SURENDRA PAL SINGH Vs. KAMLESH SINGH AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In view of Sec. 18 of the U.P. Secondary Education Service Selection Board Act, 1982, the seniormost Lecturer is compulsorily to be selected as ad hoc Principal. The said Sec. is set out below:-

(2.) The seniormost Lecturer can be by-passed only in the most extraordinary circumstances where, say, he is on the death bed or he has been suspended and such like. The Rule is not that the seniormost Lecturer is ordinarily to be selected as ad hoc Principal, but the Rule is that only in the most extraordinary circumstances can such seniormost Lecturer not be selected as ad hoc Principal.

(3.) To the extent required by the above statement, we respectfully disapprove of the dicta in the case of Dr. Vijay Laxmi Agarwal Vs. Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Jyotiba Phoole Rohilkhand University, Bareilly and others, reported at 2003 (1) E.S.C. (All) 614 .