IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Civil Writ Petition No.12697 of 2007 Date of decision: August 14, 2008 Dharam Chand Vidyalankar -----Petitioner Vs. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and others -----Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR GARG Present: Mr. Raman Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anurag Goyal, Advocate for respondent Nos.1,2 and 4. Adarsh Kumar Goel,J. 1. This petition seeks quashing of appointment of respondent No.3 as Reader in the department of Hindi in the Kurukshetra University. CWP No.12697 of 2007 2. Case of the petitioner is that in pursuance of advertisement issued in April 2006, the petitioner applied for the post of Reader in the department of Hindi. The Selection Committee recommended name of respondent No.3 who was accordingly appointed to the said post. 3. Contention raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that constitution of selection committee was not proper, one of the experts was not in the panel and another expert was being called consecutively for the last five times. 4. Stand on behalf of the University is that the petitioner himself having participated in the selection process, is estopped from challenging the selection on the ground of defect in constitution of the selection committee. The Vice Chancellor was authorized to add names to the panel of experts and there was no bar to an expert being called for more than five times. Respondent No.3 was selected on the basis of his performance of which the selection committee was the final judge. 5. Learned counsel for the University has also handed over a copy of the report of the selection committee showing that Vice Chancellor and other members of the selection committee duly attended the meeting and quorum was complete. 6. It is well settled that this Court does not sit as appellate authority over the decision of selection committee if the selection is fair, objective and legal. Reference may be made to judgments of 2 CWP No.12697 of 2007 the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Dalpat Abasaheb Solunke v. Dr. B. S. Mahajan, 1990(1) SCC 305 Para 12 : AIR 1990 SC 434, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences v. Dr. K. Kalyana Raman, 1992 Supp.(2) SCC 481 : AIR 1992 SC 1806 and M.V.Thimmaiah and others v. Union Public Service Commission and others, 2008(2) SCC 119. 7. We do not find any ground to interfere with the selection of respondent No.3. 8. The petition is dismissed. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Judge August 14, 2008 (Rakesh Kumar Garg) ‘gs’ Judge 3