JUDGMENT

Majmudar, J.-These three appeals arise out of a common judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in different writ petitions moved by the common appellant Dr. Mahak Singh in Civil Appeal Nos. 4613-4614 of 1996 and by one of the writ petitioners Dr. Rajvir Singh, appellant in companion Civil Appeal No. 4616 of 1996. These appeals project a common controversy of a triangular nature amongst three contestant-teachers attached to Janata Vaidic (Post Graduate) College. Baraut in Uttar Pradesh which is a degree college affiliated to the Meerut University. The contestants are Dr. Mahak Singh on the one hand who is the appellant in first two appeals and respondent No. 3 in these appeals Dr. S.P. Singh as well as respondent No. 5 Dr. Rajvir Singh in these two appeals who is his turn is the appellant in the companion Civil Appeal No. 4616 of 1996. All the three of them claimed to be entitled to work as incharge-Principal of the said Degree College on the ground that each one of them was the seniormost teacher. The High Court in its common impugned judgment has taken the view that out of the three contestants, common respondent No. 3 in these ap