1. Whether a Director of Public Libraries can be appointed without minimum qualification as per the statutory rules? is the question that arises for consideration in this writ petition.

2. The writ petitioner filed the present writ petition for the issuance of writ in the nature of quo warranto to show cause as to how the third respondent is holding the office of the Director of Public Libraries when he is lacking even the minimum qualification prescribed for the said post.

3. When the writ petition came up on 14.2.2011, on noticing that the petitioner has earlier filed a writ petition in W.P.No.6618 of 2011, this court directed the said writ petition to be tagged along with the writ petition. Accordingly both writ petitions came to be posted. But it was brought to the notice of this court that the previous incumbent had completed his term during the pendency of that writ petition and that the third respondent has been appointed in his place vide G.O.Ms.No.181, School Education Department, dated 21.9.2011. Hence that writ petition was dismissed as infructuous on 15.2.2012. Thereafter, when the matter came up on 16.02.2012, it was informed by the learned Advocate General