ABDUL MOTIN vs MANISANKAR MAITI - 2018 Supreme(SC) 599

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2018 Supreme(SC) 599

S.A.BOBDE, L.NAGESWARA RAO
ABDUL MOTIN – Appellant
Versus
MANISANKAR MAITI – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioners: Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Mr. Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Mr. Saurav Gupta, Mr. Rauf Rahim, Mr. Gaurav Jain, Ms. Abha Jain, Adv
For the Respondents: Mr. Jaideep Gupta, Mr. Kunal Chatterji, Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Mr. Saurav Gupta, Mr. R.K. Gupta, Mr. A.K. Singh, Mr. Shekhar Kumar, Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Ms. Astha Sharma, Mr. Vishal Prasad, Mr. Amjid Maqbool, Mr. Amit Verma, Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, Mr. Anip Sachthey, Ms. Anjali Chauhan, Ms. Ria Sachthey, Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, Mr. Gaurav Jain, Ms. Abha Jain, Mr. Apoorv Kurup, Mr. A.C. Boxipatro, Adv.

ORDER :

C.A. Nos.4667-4668/2018 (@ SLP(C) Nos.8497-8498/2015), C.A. No.4669/2018 (@ SLP(C) No.11708/2015) and C.A. No.4670/2018 (@ SLP(C) No.13663/2015)

1. Leave granted.

2. The West Bengal College Service Commission (for short, the ‘Commission’) prepared a panel for the post of Principal of Non-Government Colleges affiliated to the Universities of the State of West Bengal. In the said panel, Dr. Nandan Bhattacharya ranked first, Dr. Abdul Motin stood second and Dr. Mani Shankar Maity stood third. Since Dr. Bhattacharya refused to accept the offer of appointment for the said post, the Commission recommended the name of Dr. Abdul Motin who ranked second in the panel for appointment as Principal. Thereafter, two writ petitions were filed separately – one by Dr. Mani Shankar Maity and another by Dr. Abdul Motin.

3. In Writ Petition being W.P. No.20024(w) of 2012, Dr. Mani Shankar Maity challenged the acceptability of the Ph.D degree granted by the Netaji Subhas Open University as an essential academic qualification for the post of Principal. According to him, Dr. Motin who ranked second in the panel was an ineligible candidate as his Ph.D degree which he obtained from Netaji Subhas Open U

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2018 Supreme(SC) 599

S.A.BOBDE, L.NAGESWARA RAOABDUL MOTIN – AppellantVersusMANISANKAR MAITI – Respondent

S.A.BOBDE, L.NAGESWARA RAO
ABDUL MOTIN – Appellant
Versus
MANISANKAR MAITI – Respondent