ORDER :

Shivaraj V. Patil, J.

The second respondent was appointed as a Lecturer in Hindi in Osmania University, Respondent 1 herein, in the year 1988. The appellant was also an applicant for appointment to the said post. He was not selected but the second respondent was selected and appointed. In the year 1997, an occasion arose for promotion to the post of Reader in the said University. The second respondent was one of the contenders for promotion to the post of Reader. One Dr. Shubhada Vanjape, who was also a contender for promotion to the post of Reader, filed Writ Petition No. 19703 of 1997 contending that the second respondent herein did not belong to the reserved category of BC (B) and she had secured appointment as Lecturer in 1988 on the basis of a false certificate produced by her. A statement was made on behalf of the University, in that writ petition, that the University had found that the second respondent did not belong to the reserved category of BC (B). Placing the said statement on record, the writ petition was disposed of on 21-8-1997. Consequently, the case of the second respondent was not considered for promotion to the post of Reader. It is thereafter that the app