JUDGMENT :

1. The factual matrix of this matter is little unusual.

2. The petitioner is an Artist and National Akademi award winner of the year 2004 by Lalit Kala Akademi (National Akademi of Art). The petitioner acquired post experience Diploma of Sculpture from Royal College of Art, London in the year 1986-1988. He was awarded National Sculpture Scholarship, in the year 1996. He was granted Junior Research Fellowship by the Government of India in 1997. He was also awarded Charles Wallace Grant and Henry Moore Fellowship in United Kingdom. He participated in several International Solo Exhibition in different States of Europe and in the United States his work of Art was selected to represent India in Italian Contemporary Art exhibition by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

3. Presently he is a Professor of the Department of Sculpture, Kala Bhavan, Viswabharati University, Santiniketan.

4. The petitioner found a public announcement made in various English Newspapers from where he came to learn that the Lalit Kala Akademi, a registered society wholly controlled by Government of India had set up a disciplinary committee by the said Akademi in compliance with the Government/ Hi