Yogesh Kumar Sahu v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Chhattisgarh High Court common order 26.06.2024 (Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas) disposing bunch of Guest Lecturer/Guest Faculty writ petitions (WPS 2023–2024) challenging annual advertisements for Guest Lecturer engagement; Atithi Vyakhyata Niti (Guest Lecturer Policy) 2024 framed after 28.07.2023 Court directive governs future engagements prospectively; challenges to clauses 13.1, 13.2, 9.5, 9.6 (discrimination; interim-stay matters; Manish Gupta ad hoc replacement principle) rejected; judicial restraint on review of executive policy upheld citing Fertilizer Corporation Kamgar Union, Directorate of Film Festivals v. Gaurav Ashwin Jain, IRCTC, Jacob Puliyel, Vivek Narayan Sharma; direction to engage all Guest Lecturers for session 2024 strictly per 2024 Policy; petitions disposed, no clause struck down.
What did the court decide?
All the writ petitions disposed of by common order, with a direction to the State Government to consider the engagement of not only the petitioners but all Guest Lecturers to be appointed in the academic session 2024 strictly in accordance with the Atithi Vyakhyata Niti (Policy) 2024; no policy clause struck down.