2024 INSC 938
1 CA @ SLP(C) No.8457 of 2022
REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024
(Arising out of SLP (C) No.8457 of 2022)
P.J. DHARMARAJ ...APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA .. .RESPONDENT(S)
& ORS.
J U D G M E N T
VIKRAM NATH, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. The present appeal before us is arising out of a
judgement passed by the High Court of Telangana on
22.11.2021 in Writ Appeal 753 of 2019 whereby the
Division Bench of the High Court has upheld the
decision of the Single Judge of the High Court dated
04.09.2019 in W.P.No.45297 of 2018 whereby the
Appellant’s Writ Petition was dismissed wherein he
was contesting his retirement from the Respondent
No.2 Institute which took effect from 14.08.2018 and
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the appointment of Respondent No.4 in his place.
Aggrieved by this, the Appellant is before us.
3. The facts of the case are such that the Appellant
before us was initially appointed as Lecturer in
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological (JNT) University in
1985. He was eventually promoted as Reader in
1995. CSI Institute of Technology (CSIIT),
Respondent No.2 issued an advertisement dated
25.09.1998 for the post of Director. The Appellant
applied against the said advertisement and was
selected and appointed as Director vide appointment
letter dated 26.11.1998. At the ...