JUDGMENT

CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. :— Dr. Keshav Ram Pal, a Ph.D. and a D.Litt. in Sanskrit, who has been teaching degree and postgraduate classes for the last 26 years, who has worked as Reader and Head of the Department of Sanskrit from August 1971 onwards and who has further acted as Principal of the Lajpat Rai Post-Graduate College, Sahibabad for two years in 1972-73 and again from July 3, 1984, applied to the U.P. Higher Education Services Commission for the post of Principal, in response to an advertisement inviting applications for eight such posts. He was one of the 60 candidates, who were interviewed by the Commission but he was not selected. He has filed the present application under Art. 32 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ questioning the selection made by the Commission on two grounds. The first ground was that the Commission was biased as he belonged to an inferior caste, namely, the Gadariya (Shepherd) caste whereas the gentlemen, who constituted the interviewing Board, belonged to the higher castes of Hindu Society. He wanted us to draw the inference of bias from the circumstances, which he alleged in the petition that when he appeared before the Board and when