NARSI RAM Vs. GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ON January 10, 1996, the Guru Jambheshwar University, Hissar advertised two posts of Readers in Environmental Science and Engineering. An extract from the advertisement which appeared in the Daily Tribune, has been produced as Annexure P.1 with the writ petition. The Petitioner as well as Respondent Nos. 4 and 5 were candidates for these two posts. They were interviewed on February 9, 1996. Respondent Nos. 4, 5 and the Petitioner were selected in that order of merit. Since there were only two posts, the Petitioner was placed in the waiting list. On March 2, 1996, offers of appointment were issued to Respondent Nos. 4 and 5. Respondent No 5 joined service on March 15, 1996. Respondent No. 4 did not join. The Petitioner served a notice on the Respondents through his counsel requesting that he be appointed. No offer of appointment having been made to him, he filed the present writ petition.

(2.) THE Petitioner alleges that Respondent No. 5 was not eligible for appointment to the post of a Reader as she did not have the prescribed teaching experience. Since Respondent No. 4 has not joined and Respondent No. 5 was ineligible, the Petitioner prays that the Respondents should consider his claim for appointment on the post of Reader.

(3.) A short written statement has been filed by Respondent No. 5. She claims that she has a better academic record than the Petitioner. She has various publications and more than 9 years experience to her credit.