8. The appellant filed Writ Petition No. 853 of 1966, in the High Court, praying for the issue of a writ or order declaring s. 5 of the Osmania University (Second Amendment) Act. 1966, which introduced s. 13A in the original Act, as unconstitutional and void. In that writ petition, he challenged the validity of the new Section, s. 13A on several grounds. In brief, his plea was that by virtue of his appointment as Vice-Chancellor for 5 years on April 30, 1964, he had acquired a vested right to hold that office for the full term and that such a vested right could not be taken away, during the currency of the period, by any legislative enactment. The legislature had no competence to enact the said provision inasmuch, as s. 13A could not be treated as legislation in respect of University education. The appellant had also pleaded that the provision virtually amounted to removal of the appellant from his office without giving him any opportunity to show cause against such removal. According to the appellant, even assuming the Legislature was competent to enact the provision in question, nevertheless, s. 13A is unconstitutional and void, inasmuch as it offends Art. 14 of the Constitution
