The Supreme Court in the case observed and has dismissed the Public Interest Litigation, PIL moved wherein seeking to cancel faculty appointments in Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT from 2008 in order to present for allegedly violating the reservations norms.
The Public Interest Litigation, PIL moved also seek for equal opportunity which needs to be given to candidates from northern and Hindi speaking states in faculty positions at IITs across India.
The Division bench comprising of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar Datta in the case observed while terminating the plea as misconceived and misdirected, wherein it is stated that the prayer for cancelling the appointments made as far back in the year 2008 cannot be entertained at this point of time.
The said court in the case observed and has also found that the allegations made in the plea is to be without any supporting material.
The petitioner in the plea alleged before the court and has challenged that several students at IITs have committed suicide due to the harassment from professors, wherein the said court also called the sweeping allegations which are made by the petitioner ‘absurd’ and without any basis.
Further, the petitioner in the plea also prayed in order to cancel the appointments from June 2008 onwards and the same cannot be entertained at this belated stage, more so, when none of the appointees is the party respondent. Thus, the allegations made by him of alleged discriminatory treatment to the candidates belonging to north and Hindi speaking States, in the matter of appointment as faculty members in IITs, is totally vague, evasive and without any supporting material.
Therefore, the petitioner has also made by the sweeping allegations that several IIT students have committed suicide due to harassment caused by the professors in IITs and such an absurd plea appears to have been taken on the basis of some kind of news report. The court in the case observed and has stated that the petitioner has himself admitted before the court that the said matter relates to implementation of reservation policy in IITs which is already been pending before the Apex Court and the Madras High Court and hence no separate writ was required to be entertained while pertaining to the same issue.
