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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA, AT DHARWAD
M.NAGAPRASANNA
Sreevani B. – Appellant
Versus
State Of Karnataka Represented By Its Secretary Department Of Higher Education – Respondent
ORDER :
M. NAGAPRASANNA, J.
1. The petitioner is before this Court calling in question an Office Order dated 07.09.2018 issued by the respondent No.3 appointing the respondent No.4 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at the respondent Vijayanagar Srikrishna Devaraya University (hereinafter referred to as the ‘University’ for short).
2. Facts adumbrated are as follows.
Before embarking upon the consideration of the issue on its merit, I deem it appropriate to notice the protagonist in the lis. The petitioner is an applicant to the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany pursuant to a selection process initiated by the respondent No.2 University. So is the respondent No.4, who emerges as the selected candidate. Therefore, the lis is between the petitioner and the selected candidate.
3. Notifications are issued calling for applications from eligible candidates at various disciplines in the University. One such discipline so called was the discipline of botany which forms the fulcrum of the lis. The recruitment notifications in the case at hand are not one but three in number. The first recruitment notification is 01.06.2016. The second recruitment notificatio
The appointment of a candidate is invalid if they do not disclose current employment and fail to submit a mandatory no objection certificate during the selection process.
The court held that the appointment of an Assistant Professor without possessing a Ph.D. qualification violated UGC Regulations and lacked transparency, warranting a fresh selection process.
The selection process for public service positions must comply with established guidelines and norms, and candidates can challenge the legality of the process even after participating in it if there ....
The court upheld the appointment of Respondent No.4 as Professor, confirming compliance with UGC eligibility criteria and validating the selection process conducted by the university.
Eligibility criteria for public employment must be strictly adhered to; subsequent production of required documents does not rectify initial ineligibility.
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