1. In this case the petitioner Sri Ram Kripalu Mishra was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Hindi in the R. K. College, Madhubani, on the 14th January, 1962, by the Governing Body of that College, after the advertisement and regular interview of the candidates. The appointment of the petitioner was made under the three-year-decree course scheme of the Bihar University. The appointment of the petitioner was subsequently approved by the Syndicate of the Bihar University at its meeting held on the 15th January. 1962, and the approval of the Syndicate was communicated to the Principal of the college. Later on the Bihar Legislature enacted Bihar Act XIII of 1962 which received the assent of the Governor on the 20th April, 1962, and published in the Bihar Gazette on the 21st April, 1962. Sec. 4 of this Act reads as follows:

"Notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act or the Magadh University Act, 1961 Bihar Act IV of 1962) or the statutes made thereunder, or the Bihar State Universities (University of Bihar, Bhagalpur and Ranchi) Ordinance, 1962 (Bihar Ordinance No. 1 of 1962) every appointment, dismissal, removal, termination of service or reduction in rank of an