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HIGH COURT OF TRIPURA
MR. JUSTICE ARINDAM LODH, J
Dr. Rajat Ghosh – Appellant
Versus
Tripura University and 6 others – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
ARINDAM LODH, J.
By way of filing the present writ petition, the petitioner, Dr.Rajat Ghosh has sought for a direction for quashing/setting aside the selection/appointment of respondent no.7 (private respondent), Dr. Jagdish Kumar Sahu, who was appointed as an Associate Professor under the respondents-Tripura University (a central University) through a selection process.
2. Shortly stated, the fact of the case of the petitioner is that he being an Assistant Professor under the Tripura University, the respondents no. 1 to 6 herein, had applied for the post of Associate Professor in the department of Pharmacy in terms of an advertisement issued by the respondents-Tripura University on 19.07.2023. The said post was reserved for Other Backward Classes-Non Creamy Layer [for short, OBC-NCL] category of candidates to which he belongs to. Accordingly, call letter was issued to the petitioner and thereafter, on 20.11.2023 verification of the documents and personal interview of the aspirants for the said post was held. The main grievance as ventilated in this writ petition is that the respondent no.7, the private respondent herein, had been selected by the respondents- University for
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