Annamalai Palkalaikazhaga v. the Vice - Chancellor

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Madras High Court, single Judge (Mummineni Sudheer Kumar, J.), order dated 22.08.2025 in W.P.No.13797 of 2011 (with M.P.Nos.1 & 4 of 2011 and 1 of 2012). The petitioner, Annamalai Palkalaikazhaga Ambedkar Asiriyar Sangam (AnnaAmSam), had sought a mandamus under Article 226 of the Constitution forbearing the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of Annamalai University and 114 impleaded respondents (R3 to R116, impleaded by order dated 14.11.2011 in M.P.Nos.2 & 3 of 2011) from promoting any person as Associate Professor/Professor under the Career Advancement Scheme pursuant to Circular No.C1/2011 dated 26.04.2011 issued by the 2nd respondent. On the petitioner's counsel submitting that the cause did not survive, the petition was dismissed as infructuous and connected miscellaneous petitions were closed without costs. Non-speaking order; no cases cited; no ratio on the merits of the promotion scheme; of no precedential value beyond its disposal.

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