JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Shri M.M. Sahai and Shri Komal Mehrotra, learned counsel for the petitioners as well as Shri Ajeet Kumar Singh, Senior Counsel, assisted by Shri Shashi Prakash Rai, Advocate, representing Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi (hereinafter referred to as, 'University') and its Vice Chancellor and Registrar, i.e., respondent Nos. 2 to 4.

2. In order to systemize the running of Self Financing Courses in different Universities and the degree colleges governed by the Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as, 'Act, 1973'), the Government of Uttar Pradesh issued Government Orders dated 28.6.1999 and 4.2.2000, which provided that the teaching as well as non-teaching staff in the Self Financing Courses shall be appointed on contract basis according to the prescribed norms and their services shall come to an end on the discontinuation of the Self Financing Course.

3. In 2013 a Division Bench of this Court through its order dated 1.3.2013, passed in Dr. Suresh Kumar Pandey Vs. State of U.P. & Others, (2013) 3 A.D.J. 505 laid-down certain norms for the Self Financing Courses run by the Universities and the Degree Colleges. The Division Bench d