ORDER

Leave granted.

2. While Dr. S.N. Kacker, an eminent professor in Otorphinolaryngology, was working as professor and Head of the ENT Department in the respondent-AIIMS, an advertisement had come to be made on June 29, 1990 for appointment to the post of Director of the AIIMS on regular basis. Pursuant thereto, he had applied for and was selected by the Committee for appointment as a Professor. He came to be appointed by the Institute Body with the concurrence of the Government of India. He assumed the office on October 11, 1990 for a period of five years. His tenure came to an end on October 15, 1995. We are not concerned with the interlude of his tenure being not extended as an interim Director pending regular selection. The question that emerges for consideration is: whether on expiry of five years tenure as Director, he would be entitled to go back as a Professor and Head of the ENT Department till i.e attains his superannuation on July 31, 1998 ? When he filed writ petition in the High Court seeking one of the above reliefs, the Division Bench of the High Court in the impugned judgment made on July 19,1996 in Writ Petition No. 3865/95 has rejected his claim holding that o