Judgment · High Court

1BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURTDATED:21.03.2012CORAM:THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE N.PAUL VASANTHAKUMAR W.P(MD)No.3295 of 2011 K.Murugavel: PetitionerVs.

The Government of Tamil Nadu, Represented by its Secretary, Higher Education Department, Secretariat, Chennai.

Mother Teresa Women's University, Represented by the Registrar, Kodaikanal, Dindigul District. : Respondents PRAYER: Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of Indiapraying for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records pertaining to the impugned order inKa.No.02/Ma.Pa/Pa.Thi/Tha.A.U.Sa/2010/dated 06.12.2010 on the file of the respondent No.2 and quah the same as illegal and consequently to direct the respondents to consider the petitioner for employment on compassionate ground. For Petitioner: Mr.T.Lajapathi RoyFor Respondent-1: Mr.R.Anandaraj Govt. AdvocateFor Respondent-2: Mr.B.Pugalenthi ORDER******** The prayer in the writ petition is to quash the order, dated06.12.2010, declining the request of the petitioner seeking employment on compassionate ground, on the ground that the petitioner is a male. 2. The learned counsel for the second respondent University submitted that Section 19 of Mother Teresa Women's University Act, 1984, prohibits the appointment of male members in the University in any post, either teaching or non-teaching and if only no qualified woman is available for appointment as an officer of the University or to any post in the https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ 2University, a qualified person other than a woman, may be appointed as such officer or to such post, as the case may be.