JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records relating to the Notification dated NIL of the First Respondent and quash the same to the extent of recommendation of the provisional appointment of the second Respondent to the post of Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering and to consider the Petitioner for the said post.)

1. The notification dated 18.12.2008 (the Notification) of the first Respondent communicating the provisional selection of the second Respondent for the post of Lecturer is challenged by the Petitioner in this writ petition.

2. The Petitioner completed the B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) degree from Pondicherry Engineering College in May 2000 and M.Tech. (Energy Technology) degree from the aforesaid college in June 2004. He was working as a Lecturer for about three years in S.K.P. Engineering College and belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC). Applications were called for from eligible candidates by the first Respondent for appointment to the post of Lecturer in the Polytechnic Colleges functioning under the Pondicherry Institute of Post Matric Technical Education