Giving relief to a person whose appointment as Associate Professor in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in the school of Naval Architecture here was withdrawn, the Madras High Court has directed the Indian Maritime University to allow him to join duty.
Justice D Hariparanthaman, while passing an interim order yesterday, directed the Indian Maritime University to allow M S Ravi Sharma to work as Associate Professor and issued a notice to it directing it not to fill the post.
The petitioner Sharma, who resigned his job in the USA after his selection as Associate Professor, had challenged the University decision to withdraw the appointment order issued to him in this June.
The petitioner submitted that the University invited applications for recruitment of various faculty members in September 2012, pursuant to which he applied for the post.
Sharma further submitted that he attended the interview through Video Conferencing in November 2012 and an order of appointment was issued on December 4, 2012 asking him to join duty on or before March 3, 2013.
In the meantime the Ministry of Shipping, which constituted a Faculty Assessment Committee, kept in abeyance the joining of selected candidates and new set of directions were issued by it because of which he was not able to join duty, he stated.
Sharma contended that there was no deviation in the recruitment process, but on the basis of an order issued by the Ministry of Shipping, the university withdrew the appointment order on June 14 following which he challenged the decision.
