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Dr. Shabnam Parveen v. State of Odisha

Orissa HC8 Dec 2025WP(C)/20087/2024

Case brief

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What is this about?

Guest Lecturer substitution dispute; ad hoc employees under Self Financed Scheme; notification dated 08.08.2024; University concession of no present substitution; restraint on Opposite Parties from substituting Petitioners; continuation of existing Guest Lecturers in employment; writ petition disposed of; no costs; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; W.P.(C) No.20087 of 2024; Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad; order dated 08.12.2025.

What did the court decide?

Opposite Parties restrained from substituting the Petitioners by another set of similar employees; University directed to permit the Petitioners to continue in its employment as before. ¶19

Dr. Shabnam Parveen Vs State of Odisha — Orissa HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Opposite Parties restrained from substituting the Petitioners by another set of similar employees; University directed to permit the Petitioners to continue in its employment as before.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Petitioners, serving as Guest Lecturers, are likely to be substituted by another set of Guest Lecturers, as probabilised by the notification dated 08.08.2024. +1 more

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Court's answer

The writ petition is disposed of by restraining the Opposite Parties from substituting the Petitioners with another set of similar employees.

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Ratio / Principle

The University shall implement the order by permitting the Petitioners to continue working in its employment as before, failing which it risks contempt proceedings.

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Key takeaways

As the University's counsel conceded that there was no present case of substituting the Petitioners, and both sides agreed that additional hands may join so long as the existing employees' position ('apple cart') is not disturbed, the projected lis withered away.ratio¶17

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

High Court of Orissa at Cuttack, W.P.(C) No.20087 of 2024 (order dated 08.12.2025, Dixit Krishna Shripad, J.): Petitioner, a Guest Lecturer, apprehended substitution by another set of Guest Lecturers, a likelihood traced to a notification dated 08.08.2024; her counsel invoked Apex Court decisions said to settle that one set of ad hoc employees under the Self Financed Scheme cannot be replaced by another. Counsel for the University conceded that no substitution of the Petitioners was presently contemplated and proposed that additional lecturers may be engaged so long as the existing employees' 'apple cart' is not disturbed, to which the Petitioners' counsel agreed. The Court accordingly disposed of the petition, restraining the Opposite Parties from substituting the Petitioners by another set of similar employees and directing the University to permit them to continue working in its employment as before, with a caution against unnecessarily risking contempt proceedings; no costs.

Dr. Shabnam Parveen v. State of Odisha

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