By the Court.—Heard Sri S. P. Gupta, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Shivam Agarwal on behalf of petitioner. Sri K. C. Kaushik, Additional Solicitor General on behalf of Union of India as well as Indian Institute of Information & Technology, Allahabad (hereinafter referred to as ‘IIIT-A’).

2. Petitioner before this Court seeks quashing of the entire process of selection, initiated by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Union of India, for the post of Director, IIIT-A, interview whereof was scheduled on 23.12.2013. A mandamus has been prayed for, directing the Hon’ble Chancellor of IIIT-A to hold selections for the post of Director and for restraining the Search-cum-Selection Committee constituted by Union of India from holding any interview for the post of Director, and lastly, in the alternative for a mandamus commanding the authority concerned to call the petitioner for interview also for the post of Director, IIIT-A.

3. Facts in short leading to present writ petition are as follows:

IIIT-A is a Deemed University within the meaning of an international repute, managed and administrated by a society in the name and style of India Institute of Information & Technology,