MANPREET SINGH WALIA Vs. PUNJAB UNIVERSITY AND ANOTHER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The respondent No.1, vide advertisement No.3/12 invited applications to fill up 4 posts of Professors in Dr. Harvansh Singh Judge, Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital P.U., Chandigarh.

(2.) According to the petitioner, it was provided in the advertisement that the screening criteria and weightage template to be used by the Selection Committee for evaluating the academic record and research performance etc. are available on the University website. All the 4 Professors were to be appointed in different disciplines namely, Oral Pathology, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery-I, Orthodontics-I and Prosthodontics-I. It is alleged that the petitioner accessed the website of respondent No.1/University in order to download the screening criteria and weightages template to be used by the screening committee for evaluating academic record, research performance etc. for the posts of Assistant Professors but only the template for the posts of Assistant Professor was available on the website which is reproduced as under: -

(3.) It is further submitted that interview for the post of Professors in the Oral Maxillofacial Surgery was held on 1.6.2012 in which only one candidate had appeared. At that time, following criteria was applied: -