The Director or Higher Education on 20th July, 1993, while exercising power under Section 13 4 of the Act, directed the management of the said companylege to appoint the appellant as Principal.
Against that judgment, the present appeal by special leave is preferred.
Because of this, thereafter the selectees, who were placed below the appellants in the merit list, were also appointed as Principals in the merit list, were also appointed as Principals in respective companyleges where their subjects of studies were being taught.
As per the policy existing at the relevant time, the appointment companyld only be of an incumbent in case the subject in which he is specialised is taught in the said institution.
The appellant was interviewed and on the basis of the list prepared by the said companymission, the Director intimated the names of the various selectees to the managements of various companyleges for being appointed as Principals.
R.P. Sharma, who was a regular Principal of the companylege.
Respondent No.1 exerted therein that in fact he is working in the said companylege as Lecturer in Physics since 1956.
On the 1st July, 1993, a post of Principal in Maharaj Singh D.G. College, Saharanpur fell vacant on the retirement of mr.
D in Physics Degree as High Level fellow from Government of France and I.C.I.P. Fellow from UNESCO.
Against this direction, respondent No.1 herein, namely, Dr. Yogesh Kumar Gupta, filed a writ Petition in the High Court for quashing of the same.
On 19th June, 1995, the High Court allowed the writ petition and quashed the said order of the Director.
On 20th April, 1992, pursuant to the advertisement No.
18 issued by the U.P. Higher Education Service Commission, through which applications were invited for the post of Principals for number governmental companyleges in different Universities within the State of Utter pradesh, the appellant applied for the same.
The appellant is working as a Reader in R.K. College, Shamli, Muzaffar Nagar.
He claimed that when the post of Principal tell vacant, by virtue of statute 13.20 of the Meerut University Act, he was appointed as Officiating Principal of the aforesaid companylege and he assumed charge as Principal of the College.
