Antony Dominic, J.

1. This Writ Appeal is filed by respondents 1 to 3 in W.P.(C).No. 38323/2007, who are aggrieved by the judgment of the learned Single Judge, allowing the Writ Petition. That Writ Petition was filed by the 1st respondent herein, challenging Ext.P1 notification issued by the appellants and to quash the selection process for appointment to the post of Director, Department of Physical Education, University of Kerala. He also sought a declaration that the selection process for appointment to the post of Director is vitiated, since the selection committee was not constituted in terms of the provisions contained in the Kerala University First Statute, 1977.

2. By the judgment under appeal, following the judgment of the Supreme Court in P.S.Ramamohana Rao v. A.P.Agricultural University and another [(1997) 8 SCC 350], and the judgments of this Court in Sivasankara Kaimal v University of Calicut [2003 (1) KLT 146] and Cochin University of Science and Technology v. Joseph James [2005 (4) KLT 555], the learned Single Judge held that the post of Director, Department of Physical Education is a teaching post, attracting the provisions contained in Chapter III of the