Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here on a petition seeking quashing of appointments of 164 assistant professors on a regular basis in 2003 made allegedly in violation of recruitment rules.
A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justices A.K. Sikri and Vipin Sanghi asked the AIIMS administration to file a reply by September 17.
The petitioner, Additional Professor Sarman Singh in the Institute’s Department of Laboratory Medicines, has alleged that the professors were earlier appointed on an ad hoc basis in 1995. The Court had in 2001 dismissed their plea for regularising their appointments, the petitioner said.However, the AIIMS administration later appointed them to the post on a regular basis in defiance of the Court orders. The petitioner urged the Court to direct the Centre to notify the eligibility criteria for various teaching posts adopted by the Institute’s Governing Body in 2002 and the AIIMS administration to follow the Union Public Service Commission’s norms in all its appointments.
The petitioner also urged the Court to order an inquiry into the appointments. The Court had in 2004 dismissed a petition by Prof. Singh seeking quashing of the appointments. He had later filed a Special Leave Petition in the apex court that directed the High Court to hear his petition.
