2025 INSC 1462
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Reportable
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NOS.__________________ OF 2025 (@Special Leave Petition (C) Nos.10079-10080/2025)
RADHIKA T. …APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & ORS.
…RESPONDENT(S)
J U D G M E N T
N.V. ANJARIA, J.
Leave granted.
2. These two Appeals preferred by the
appellant-original petitioner, arise out of the
judgment and order dated 12.07.2023 in Writ Appeal
No.534 of 2023 and order dated 13.09.2025 in Review
Petition No.1202 of 2023 respectively, passed by the
Division Bench of High Court of Kerala, whereby the
High Court dismissed both the writ appeal and
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review petition, confirming the dismissal of the Writ
Petition.
2.1. In the Writ Petition, the appellant-
petitioner prayed to direct respondent No.1-Cochin
University of Science and Technology, Kalamassery
and its Registrar-respondent No. 2, to appoint the
appellant as Associate Professor, Inorganic
Chemistry (Scheduled Caste) in the Department of
Applied Chemistry. It was next prayed to declare as
illegal communication dated 16.09.2022 of the
University rejecting the case of the petitioner for
being appointed against the vacancy, which had
arisen upon resignation of appointee candidate- one
Dr. Anitha C. Kumar.
2.2. The appellant-petitioner staked her
claim ...