DIRECTOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT Vs. JAYANTI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD counsel for the parties at length.

(2.) THESE Special Appeals have been filed against the order dated 26. 2. 2001, passed by the learned Single Judge in S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 1646/2000 and other connected cases. Since the factual aspect and law involved in all the cases was common, therefore, the learned Single Judge disposed of all the writ petitions by a common order.

(3.) IT is not is dispute that the question raised for consideration before this Court is already covered by two Full Bench Judgments of this Court and also by the judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court, reported in (2000) 4 SCC 200 (3), in which the Hon'ble Supreme Court, considering the admission to B. Ed. Course on the basis of District Wise distribution of seats, held that the District Wise distribution of seats for the purpose of admission to B. Ed. Course without indicating any material to show that the nexus between such distribution and the objection sought to be achieved, it would be violative of Article 14 of the Constitution. However, the Supreme Court clarified that since the dispute had arisen five years long ago, the only relief that could be granted was that if any further steps are taken by the respondents for fresh admission to B. Ed. Course, the candidates shall also be given an opportunity to seek admission. In the said judgment, the Supreme Court has referred to two earlier judgments of the Supreme Court, reported in AIR 1971 (SC) 2303 (4) and AIR 1968 (SC) 1012