RANJAN KUMAR LAHIRI Vs. UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner was appointed as a Lecturer in Commerce in the University of Kalyani (hereinafter referred to as the University) on the 5th Jan., 1978 on the recommendation of a Selection Committee. According to the petitioner, for the academic session 1977-78 when the Department of Commerce was started as a new one, he was the only teacher in that Department. At the time when the petitioner joined, there was no Head of the Department of Commerce till after about nine months from the date of his joining. The respondent No. 6 who was the Chairman of the Faculty was acting as the Head of the Department of Commerce along with the Department of Economics and Political Science under orders of the Vice Chancellor of the University in that behalf.

(2.) On the 11th April 1978 an advertisement dated 6th April, 1978 issued by the Registrar of the University appeared in the Calcutta edition of the Statesman. The relevant portion of the advertisement may be set out below. "University of Kalyani Advt. No. 4/78.

(3.) According to the petitioner, he has had teaching experience of about 19 years in under graduate Honours and Post graduate Honours and publication in different journals in India to his credit as also a Ph.D. degree in Economics and was thus duly qualified for the above post of a Reader in Commerce.