S. PARVATHA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE perplexing question raised in this writ petition is whether the so called transfer of the fourth-respondent from the post of Director, Publications Division as a Professor in the Department of Folk Arts in the School of Fine Arts of the first respondent university, i. e. , Telugu University, is valid. At that time the petitioner had been the head of Folk Arts Department as she was the Reader in that Department and there was no Professor. If the appointment by transfer of the fourth respondent as professor is valid, there can be no doubt that he would be the Head of the department of Folk Arts replacing the petitioner, as he in fact did after his appointment as Professor. The petitioner s complaint is that but for the transfer of the fourth respondent as Professor she would have continued as the Head of the department of Folk Arts and aggrieved by the deprivation, she questions the action of the authorities concerned of the first respondent University in effecting the transfer.

( 2 ) BEFORE grasping the nettle of questions arising for resolution in this writ petition, first the necessary factual back-ground has to be sketched: The petitioner is a post-

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