{"id":12376,"date":"2010-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/hiren-vs-bhavik-on-23-december-2010"},"modified":"2015-10-26T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T02:17:28","slug":"hiren-vs-bhavik-on-23-december-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/hiren-vs-bhavik-on-23-december-2010","title":{"rendered":"Hiren vs Bhavik on 23 December, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Hiren vs Bhavik on 23 December, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: D.H.Waghela,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Mr.Justice J.C.Upadhyaya,&amp;Nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre>   Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n\n  \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nLPA\/2986\/2010\t 7\/ 7\tORDER \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nLETTERS\nPATENT APPEAL No. 2986 of 2010\n \n\nIn\n\n\n \n\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No. 10773 of 2009\n \n\nWith\n\n\n \n\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No. 15979 of 2010\n \n\nIn\n \n\n\nLETTERS\nPATENT APPEAL (ST. No.) No. 2658 of 2010\n \n\nIn\n \n\nCIVIL\nAPPLICATION No.10773 of 2009\n \n\nIn\n \n\nSPECIAL\nCIVIL APPLICATION No.5797 of 2009\n \n\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nHIREN\nN UPADHAYA &amp; 12 - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nBHAVIK\nM PATEL &amp; 9 - Respondent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nDC DAVE for\nAppellant(s) : 1 - 13. \nMR PA JADEJA for Respondent(s) : 1, \nMR\nNJ SHAH ASSTT GOVERNMENT PLEADER for Respondent(s) : 2 -\n10. \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE D.H.WAGHELA\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nand\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE J.C.UPADHYAYA\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 23\/12\/2010 \n\n \n\nORAL\nORDER<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.H.WAGHELA)<\/p>\n<p>1.\t\tIn<br \/>\nmain L.P.A. No.2986 of 2010, after consent of respondents to<br \/>\ncondonation of delay and to the grant of leave to appeal, when the<br \/>\nappeal was posted for admission hearing, learned A.G.P. expressed<br \/>\ninability to assist the Court for want of necessary instructions.<br \/>\nTherefore, respondent No.3 was requested to remain personally present<br \/>\nand learned A.G.P. was requested to see that necessary instructions<br \/>\nwere obtained in time and, if thought fit, request learned Advocate<br \/>\nGeneral or learned Additional Advocate General  to appear for the<br \/>\nState so as to render full assistance to the Court. Although the<br \/>\nappellants were not party to the original proceedings in SCA No.5797<br \/>\nof 2009 and allied matters or in Civil Application No.10773 of 2009,<br \/>\nthey, in effect, seek reversal of  the orders made therein as far as<br \/>\nthey contain the direction to relieve and not continue such ad-hoc<br \/>\nlecturers as the appellants herein.  In the other similar Civil<br \/>\nApplication No.15979 of 2010 for leave to appeal preferred for<br \/>\nsimilar intervention, learned A.G.P. has refused to give consent for<br \/>\ngrant of leave to appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.\t\tRecord<br \/>\nof L.P.A. No.2986 of 2010  and Civil Application No.10773 of 2009<br \/>\nreveals that the original proceedings in SCA No.5797 of 2009 etc.<br \/>\nwere initiated by temporary and ad-hoc lecturers with the clear<br \/>\nadmission that they did not have any legal right to continue as<br \/>\nad-hoc lecturers but, in view of persistent state of vacancies, they<br \/>\nwere required to be continued in service rather than being replaced<br \/>\nby such other lecturers. While deciding that petition, learned single<br \/>\nJudge took note of earlier Division Bench judgment of this Court in<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/doc\/246581\/\">K.D.Vora v. Kamleshbhai Gobarbhai Patel<\/a> [2003 (2) GLR 1343]<br \/>\nand the statements made on behalf of the State Government and the<br \/>\nG.P.S.C., and issued suitable directions with a time-bound programme<br \/>\nfor filling up the vacancies in accordance with law.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.\t\tFor<br \/>\nthe special reasons recorded in the order dated 30.06.2009 in SCA<br \/>\nNo.5797 of 2009 etc., ad-hoc lecturers were allowed to continue as  a<br \/>\none-time measure till 30.04.2010 or till the candidates regularly<br \/>\nselected by GPSC were available, whichever was earlier. Thereafter,<br \/>\nthe State Government made Civil Application No.10773 of 2009 in the<br \/>\naforesaid SCA No.5797 of 2009 and, by a detailed order, the<br \/>\ntime-limit was extended to 31.12.2010, again as a one-time measure<br \/>\nand as a special case with the special condition that 908 lecturers,<br \/>\nwhich the Government was permitted to appoint as temporary appointees<br \/>\nfor eleven months, shall not claim any right in future. Copies of<br \/>\nthat order, in view of the earlier directions and the necessity, were<br \/>\ndirected to be sent to AICTE while GPSC was heard as a party.<br \/>\nThereafter, a few orders are made in different proceedings resulting<br \/>\ninto continuation of some lecturers in service on account of<br \/>\nconcessions made by the State Government. But undisputably, the<br \/>\nappointments and continuation of lecturers in government engineering<br \/>\ncolleges on ad-hoc or temporary basis is de hors the relevant<br \/>\nrules and orders of the Court. As held by Division Bench of this<br \/>\nCourt in K.D.Vora (supra), such inaction on the part of officers<br \/>\nconcerned and neglect in discharge of their duty of filling up the<br \/>\nposts in accordance with the relevant rules amounted to breach of<br \/>\nstatutory duties, misfeasance or malfeasance  resulting into<br \/>\nviolation of fundamental rights of  prospective  candidates. It is<br \/>\nfurther observed therein:\n<\/p>\n<p> 15.\t&#8230;&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>Deliberate and consistent failure on the part of the executive to<br \/>\nconsult the P.S.C. in matters in which it is constitutionally obliged<br \/>\nto consult, notwithstanding the advice may not be binding on it,<br \/>\nwould bring about a situation in which it would appear that the<br \/>\ngovernance of the State is not carried on in accordance with the<br \/>\nprovisions of the Constitution, by one hand paralysing a<br \/>\nconstitutional body like the P.S.C. from functioning and on the<br \/>\nother, short circulating (sic) the provisions which require<br \/>\nregulations under the proviso to clause (3) to Art. 320 to be framed<br \/>\nand to be laid before the Legislature which can modify them,<br \/>\nfor deciding in which specified matters, consultation with the P.S.C.<br \/>\nis to be dispensed with&#8230;&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p> 21.\tThus,<br \/>\na very sad picture emerges. There has been a total callousness on the<br \/>\npart of the executive as well as the Gujarat Public Service<br \/>\nCommission which is a constitutional authority, in the discharge of<br \/>\ntheir important constitutional functions in the matter of making<br \/>\nappointments to the cadre of Lecturers, Gujarat Education Service<br \/>\nClass II (Collegiate Branch)&#8230;..\n<\/p>\n<p>4.\t\tThe<br \/>\nfactual situation arising from the administration of government<br \/>\nengineering colleges is that, on the one hand capacity of admitting<br \/>\nstudents in various engineering colleges (degree and diploma<br \/>\ncolleges) under the State Government has been consistently increased<br \/>\nwith the approval of AICTE and, on the other hand, the strength of<br \/>\nteaching staff has been dwindling. As on today, out of the sanctioned<br \/>\n 3634  posts of lecturers, there are only 1161 lecturers who are<br \/>\nregularly selected and appointed. As against that, total number of<br \/>\nvacant posts are 2292 and, if the impugned order were fully<br \/>\nimplemented, 540 ad-hoc and 508 temporary lecturers will have to be<br \/>\nrelieved by 31.12.2010. Thus, in short, while presently the<br \/>\nengineering colleges  are run with less than 50% of the required<br \/>\nstrength of teaching staff, the strength would be reduced to nearly<br \/>\n25%. It was admitted by Director of Technical Education himself that<br \/>\nsuch reduced strength was insufficient for running the colleges for<br \/>\nteaching purpose and the deficit in the strength of higher officers<br \/>\nsuch as principal of professors was far worse.\n<\/p>\n<p>5.\t\tThe<br \/>\nabove situation has arisen in spite of very strong strictures and<br \/>\ndirections issued by Division Bench of this Court in similar<br \/>\ncircumstances in K.D.Vora (supra). Admittedly, the important<br \/>\ndirection in that judgment is not reported to have been complied with<br \/>\nand the Government has merrily went on with appointing and continuing<br \/>\nad-hoc and temporary lecturers de hors the recruitment rules.<br \/>\nAt one stage, as noted in the impugned order, the GPSC was indirectly<br \/>\nblamed for not supplying the selected candidates in spite of various<br \/>\nrequisitions made by the State Government in the year 2005, 2006 and<br \/>\n2008. While the State Government has exhausted its prayers for<br \/>\nextension and one-time special permission for continuing or<br \/>\nappointing ad-hoc or temporary lecturers, it was stated by learned<br \/>\nA.G.P.  that now the GPSC has approached learned single Judge, by way<br \/>\nof MCA No.2597 of 2010, so as to claim more time for undertaking<br \/>\nnecessary process of selection in accordance with the rules.<br \/>\nRemarkably, the GPSC or the AICTE are not made parties to the present<br \/>\nproceeding and, prima facie, the appellants and the State<br \/>\nGovernment appeared to have colluded for circumventing the directions<br \/>\nissued by the  Court in the impugned order. Thus, in short, the State<br \/>\nGovernment and their officers concerned appeared to have consistently<br \/>\nand consciously acted in contempt of the orders and directions in<br \/>\nK.D.Vora (supra), in SCA No.5797 of 2009 and in the impugned order.<br \/>\nAnd, the victims of failure or misfeasance on the part of the State<br \/>\nGovernment, AICTE and GPSC may be students, numbering more than<br \/>\n82,000, whose education and future hangs in balance. On the other<br \/>\nhand, several petitions, being SCA Nos.2943\/10, 3217\/10, 3220\/10,<br \/>\n3229\/10, 3234\/10 and 3373\/10, are stated to have been filed and<br \/>\nadmitted, which challenge the relevant recruitment rules for<br \/>\nappointment of lecturers. It is apparent from this mesh of<br \/>\nlitigations that the forum of High Court is used or abused for the<br \/>\npurpose of perpetuating the apparently illegal activity of continuing<br \/>\nin service lecturers who have been appointed de hors the rules<br \/>\nand the blame is sought to be placed at the doors of GPSC which<br \/>\nitself is stated to have been suffering from acute shortage of<br \/>\nmanpower.\n<\/p>\n<p>6.\t\tIn<br \/>\nthe above facts and circumstances, obviously, different proceedings<br \/>\nin different courts, with or without all the necessary parties being<br \/>\njoined, is causing and likely to cause conflicting or inconsistent<br \/>\ndecisions and the issues involved in all the litigations are likely<br \/>\nto affect thousands of students  in engineering colleges, who may not<br \/>\nbe parties in any of the proceedings. The matter calls for some<br \/>\ninvestigation of developments in the past and monitoring of the<br \/>\nprogress in the future. Therefore, it appears to be necessary, in the<br \/>\ninterest of justice and in the interest of administration, that all<br \/>\nthe related matters and petitions are placed for hearing before one<br \/>\nbench and the present appeal is treated as a Public Interest<br \/>\nLitigation so as to join as respondent such important players as GPSC<br \/>\nand AICTE as also to obtain assistance of some institution or learned<br \/>\nadvocate as amicus curiae.\n<\/p>\n<p>7.\t\tTherefore,<br \/>\nthe present appeal and the civil applications are ordered to be<br \/>\nplaced before the Hon&#8217;ble Chief Justice for such order as may be<br \/>\ndeemed proper in the above circumstances and for listing all the<br \/>\naforesaid matters pending before the High Court before a particular<br \/>\nbench, if thought fit. In view of urgency and importance of the<br \/>\nmatter, office may place this order before the Hon&#8217;ble Chief Justice<br \/>\nas early as practicable for earliest practicable listing of the<br \/>\nmatters before appropriate Court as per the order of the Hon&#8217;ble<br \/>\nChief Justice.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>(<br \/>\nD.H.Waghela, J.)<\/p>\n<p>Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>(J.C.Upadhyaya,J.)<\/p>\n<p>(KMG<br \/>\nThilake)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court Hiren vs Bhavik on 23 December, 2010 Author: D.H.Waghela,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable Mr.Justice J.C.Upadhyaya,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print LPA\/2986\/2010 7\/ 7 ORDER IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 2986 of 2010 In CIVIL APPLICATION No. 10773 of 2009 With CIVIL APPLICATION No. 15979 of 2010 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hiren vs Bhavik on 23 December, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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