Palok Basu, J.

An advertisement was got published by Allahabad University (In some newspapers, it is shown as 30th January and February, 1995) inviting applications from the eligible candidates for selection to the posts of Professors, Readers and Lecturers, is under challenge in the aforementioned writ petitions. Since the question involved in these writ petitions, are identical, at the request of the learned Counsel for the parties, these petitions have been connected and heard together and are being disposed of by a common judgment and order.

2. Some of the questions raised in the petitions go to the root of the matter concerning the justification for the advertisement as it exists. Nonetheless, the Hon'ble Supreme Court's decision seems to cover a large part of the field and leave very narrow lane for this Court to travel in between and, therefore, what is to be decided is how far and how much the said narrow lane can be travelled.

3. At the very outset, it should be noted that in the case of State of Uttar Pradesh Vs. Dr. Dina Nath Shukla and another, (1997) 9 SCC 662, the directions of the Supreme Court are : "The law is declared accordingly. The Vice-Chancellor would