JUDGMENT :

HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR, J.

1. The present Appeals have been filed by the Delhi Technological University (erstwhile Delhi College of Engineering) assailing the common Judgment dated 05 April 2023 of the learned Single Judge passed in W.P.(C) 2239/2016 and W.P.(C) 2650/2016.

2. By the impugned Judgment, the learned Single Judge has set aside the termination orders dated 29.02.2016 and 04.03.2016 along with the preceding Show Cause Notices, [SCNs] as well as the findings of the Narayanswami Inquiry Report to the extent that it pertained to the Respondents herein.

3. The Respondents were also held to be entitled to all consequential benefits that would be, of necessity, following the setting aside of the termination orders, inter alia, continuity of service.

4. The starting point of the entire dispute before us appears to be the advertisement dated 03.12.2011 for 34 Professorial posts and 60 Associate Professorial posts issued by the Appellant. Both the Respondents herein responded to the advertisement and applied for the post of Associate Professor (Bio-Technology).

5. A perusal of the advertisement would reveal that there was a generic stipulation as to “essential qualifica