(1.) The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh is a hospital and educational institute of national importance. The appointment of Mr. Onkar Nath Nagi, Professor and Head of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, to the post of Dean of this premier institute, is questioned in this writ petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner herself is working as a professor in another department of Radiology in the same institute. Her name was considered by the recommending as well as appointing authority alongwith four other professors and Head of Departments of their respective specialities.
(2.) The principal grounds of challenge by the petitioner to this pivotal post of Dean of the institute are:-
(3.) Learned counsel for the respondents strenuously opposed the above contentions and contended:-