JUDGMENT

Rajendra Babu, J.-Special leave granted in S.L.P. (C) Nos. 22833 and 21612 of 1997.

2. The above appeals have been filed by one or the other of the parties before the High Court against the decision rendered in this group of cases. So far as C.A. No. 8703/1997 is concerned, it is against the decision in CWP No. 15256/96, which came to be disposed of on 5-8-1997 by an order, "For orders, see C.W.P. No. 18312 of 1996". While dealing with the case in CWP No. 18312/96, the Division Bench made the observation even at the threshold that the said judgment shall dispose of Civil Writ Petition Nos. 14263, 16256, 16005 and 18312 of 1996 as the question of law canvassed is identical and the facts alone are taken from CWP No. 18312/96 filed by one Sunil Deshta.

C.A. No. 8703/97: This is against the order in CWP No.15256/96.

3. As on 21-1-1994 the appellant in this appeal was serving as a confirmed Reader in the Faculty of Law of Kurukshetra University, when he applied for selection to the post of Professor at the Kurukshetra University Post Graduate Regional Centre, Sirsa, in terms of advertisement issued inviting applications therefor on 27.7.1994, this appellant was said to have been se