Hyderabad: In a relief to the guest faculty at IIIT Basara (Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies), the Telangana High Court has directed the university administration to continue their services and not replace them.
Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavli passed orders to this effect on Wednesday while hearing a writ petition filed by D. Chandrashekar and 40 other faculty members challenging the notification issued by the varsity for fresh recruitment of guest faculty.
The petitioners informed the court that they were recruited in May this year. Like a bolt from the blue and in the middle of the academic year, the university issued another notification calling for fresh recruitment to the posts that they were already holding.
Mr N.S. Arjun Kumar, counsel for the petitioners, submitted that such an exercise in the middle of the academic year would put the guest faculty to severe hardship and it would also be a violation of the Supreme Court judgment that one temporary employee cannot be replaced by another.
The judge in the Interim Order directed the university to continue to have the petitioners in service and admitted the case.
