College faculty faces HC heat for ‘frivolous’ case
The Madras High Court has imposed costs of Rs. 25,000 on a teaching staff employed with the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engineering and Technology for having filed a public interest litigation petition seeking issuance of a writ of quo warranto against the officiating principal of the institution.
The first Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice M. Sundar, ordered that the cost imposed on the PIL petitioner, V. Prasath, should be deducted from his salary deposited with the Registrar General of the High Court.
The judges pointed out that the petitioner had questioned the appointment of A. Kumar as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering in PKIET and alleged that the latter did not possess the requisite eligibility as per the recruitment rules to be appointed to the post.
“It appears to us that this writ petition filed by a faculty member, is, ex facie, frivolous and is prompted by ulterior intent.
“There can be no public interest. An appointment cannot be challenged once the appointment assumes finality,” the Division Bench said and dismissed the case with costs.
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