Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1068 · Decided 11 October 2022
State of West Bengal v. Anindya Sundar Das & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1068 · [2022] 13 S.C.R. 946
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6706/2022
- Decided
- 11 October 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HIMA KOHLI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Universities - Vice-Chancellor - Re-appointment of - Challenge to - Calcutta University Act, 1979 - ss. 8 and 60 - High Court allowed petition u/Art.226 seeking a writ of quo warranto against the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Calcutta University - the State government had no authority to appoint or re-appoint the VC under s.8 of the Act, or by taking recourse to the residuary provisions of s.60 of the Act - As a consequence, the order issued by the Special Secretary to the Government of West Bengal re-appointing the incumbent VC of
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