KANWAL SINGH RANA Vs. KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Short question for answer in this petition is as to whether respondent No. 1, i.e. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (hereinafter called, the University) was competent to relax qualifications prescribed for the post of Assistant Manager (Press) in the University Press? The petitioners and respondent No. 2 had applied for the post of Assistant Manager (Press) pursuant to an advertisement issued in July, 1997. Qualifications for this non-teaching post of Assistant Manager (Press) were as under:

(2.) It is averred that respondent No. 2, a candidate selected for the said post, does not have three years Diploma in Printing Technology and also lacked experience of three years of a large Printing Press in a supervisory capacity which were essential requirements. Appointment letter dated 21.10.1997 (Annexure P-5) of respondent No. 2 reveals that it was issued after relaxing the qualifications in his favour. Plea of the petitioners is that neither the condition of qualification nor of experience could be relaxed and that there was no such mention in the advertisement that any such 'relaxation' could be exercised.

(3.) Setting out their case further, it is claimed that respondent No. 2 is simply a matriculate with one year certificate course of Off-set Printing. Having joined as a Copy Holder in the University Press, he was promoted as Proof Reader in Academic Branch in August, 1994 but was later brought back to the University Press and was working there against a post of a Supervisor at the time of interview of Assistant Manager.