IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.7796 of 2008 Date of Decision: 12.5.2008 Smt.Kavita Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K.C.PURI Present: Shri S.N.Yadav, Advocate for the petitioner Jasbir Singh, J. (Oral) By filing this writ petition the petitioner has laid challenge to the order dated 17.4.2008 (P/4), vide which, respondent No.5 has been transferred against the post occupied by the petitioner. Admittedly, the petitioner was working as a guest faculty teacher. Respondent No.5 is a regular teacher. We feel that once a regular teacher has been transferred against the post held by a guest faculty teacher, the guest faculty teacher has no right whatsoever, to lay challenge to the arrangement made by the authorities concerned. A Division Bench judgment of this Court in Baldev Singh and others v. The State of Haryana and others (CWP No.387 of 2007), decided on 30.8.2007while discussing rights of a guest faculty teacher, has held as under:- “It is, thus, clear that the claim of the petitioners for quashing the condition of limiting the period of their appointment does Civil Writ Petition No.7796 of 2008 not suffer from any illegality or irregularity which may warrant interference of this Court. In the Constitutional Bench judgment in Secretary, State of Karnataka & others v. Umadevi & others, (2006) 4 SCC 1, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has allowed the State to engage employees on contract basis by taking into account the requirement of work. The petitioners can neither impose themselves upon the respondents nor they can be allowed to continue beyond the period for which they were engaged as Guest Faculty Teachers. The petitioners also cannot be allowed to continue till regular appointments are made, as Guest Faculty Teachers are appointed only to tide over the situation like death, retirement, resignation, promotion, etc.” In view of facts mentioned above, no case is made out for interference. Dismissed. (Jasbir Singh) Judge May 12, 2008 (K.C. Puri) gk Judge 2