S. Muralidhar, J.

This is an appeal by the Governing Body ('GB') of Hindu College (hereafter "College") against a judgment dated 27th November, 2018 passed by the learned Single Judge allowing WP (C) No. 8865 of 2018 filed by Respondent No.1 and inter-alia requiring the GB to undertake a fresh exercise for appointing the Principal of the College.

Background facts

2. The background facts are that the University of Delhi (Respondent No.2) (hereafter "University") informed the College by a letter dated 22nd March, 2017 of the procedure and guidelines for appointment of Principal of the College through the Centralised Online Registration Portal. In terms of the said procedure, online applications received through the portal were to be scrutinised by "a Pre-Screening Committee" ("PSC") constituted by University. All the applications in a soft copy along with the pre-screened data would thereafter be sent to the College.

3. The GB of the College was to thereafter constitute a Screening Committee comprising of:

(i) The Chairman of the GB of the College (who would be the Chairperson of the Screening Committee);

(ii) 2 members of the GB of which at least one should be a University repre