IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 22875 of 2008 Between: Dr.S.Muzaffaruddin S/o.Mohammed Jalal C/o.S.A.Rahman (Retired Librarian) 19/118, Madras Road,Kadapa-516001 ..... PETITIONER AND 1 Sri Venkateswara University, rep.by Vice Chancellor Tirupati-517501, Chittoor District 2 Sri Venkateswara University, rep.by its REgistrar Tirupati- 517501,Chittoor District .....RESPONDENT(S) Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Aﬃdavit ﬁled herein the High Court will be pleased to to issue writ order or direction more particularly one in the nature of writ of mandamus declaring the action of the respondents in not appointing the petitioner as Associate Professor in Arabic Persian and Urdu Department since the petitioner is 3rd person in the shortlist prepared by the Selection Committee of the Respondent University and the 1st and 2nd candidates have not opted to the post of Associate Professor in Urdu Department pursuant to the advertisement No.EII(2)/ADVT- (1)/2006 dated 10.11.2006 is arbitrary, bad and illegal, and violation of principles of natural justice and violation of Article 14 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to appoint the petitioner as a Associate Professor in Arabic persian and Urdu Department, in the Respondent Universtiy in the interest of justice and pass Counsel for the Petitioner:MR.KURITIBHASKARA RAO Counsel for the Respondent No.: MR.KASAJAGANMOHAN REDDY The Court made the following : THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO : 22875 of 2008 ORDER 1 This Writ Petition is ﬁled seeking a mandamus declaring the action of the respondent in not appointing the petitioner as an Associate Professor in Arabic, Persian and Urdu department pursuant to the advertisement No.EII(2)/ADVT-(1)/2006, dated 10.11.2006 as arbitrary, illegal and violative of principles of natural justice. 2 It appears, in pursuance of the advertisement dated 10.11.2006 issued by the second respondent University the petitioner along with others applied for the post of Associate Professor in the department of Arabic, Persian and Urdu. According to the petitioner he and two other persons were selected. But the ﬁrst and second persons who were selected did not join the service of the University. Therefore, there was no other option for the respondents except to appoint the petitioner as Associate Professor in the said department. 3 The grievance of the petitioner is that though there is no other qualiﬁed and selected person available, he is not being oﬀered appointment as required under the notiﬁcation and the consequent selection. The petitioner also appears to have made a representation dated 15.11.2007 to the respondents ventilating his grievance in this regard. 4 In that view of the matter, without expressing any opinion on merits, the Writ Petition is disposed of directing the respondents to consider and dispose of the representation purported to have been made by the petitioner on 15.11.2007 and pass appropriate orders as per law, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order and communicate the same to the petitioner. No order as to costs. ----------------------- C.V.RAMULU, J. 21.10.2008 CC in one week B/o kvsn