WRIT - A No. 368 of 2021 at Allahabad

AFR 2025:AHC:36073 Reserved :- 04/03/2025 Delivered :- 12/03/2025 Court No. - 10 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 368 of 2021 Petitioner :- Amna Khatoon And 2 Others Respondent :- Aligarh Muslim University Through Its Vice Chancellor And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Mohd Aadil Siddiqui,Tauseef Khan Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Abrar Ahmad,Shashank Shekhar Singh Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J. 1. Heard S/Sri Alibin Saif and Zeeshan Khan, learned advocates for petitioners, Sri Tirath Raj Shukla, learned advocate holding brief of Sri Shashank Shekhar Singh, learned counsel for respondent-Aligarh Muslim University (for short “A.M.U.”). 2. Petitioners (Amma Khatoon, Dr. Mohd. Azfar Shaida and Dr. Syed Md. Humayun Akhter) have approached this Court in the year 2021 with a prayer that they may be allowed to participate in a selection process initiated in pursuance of an Advertisement No. 4/2019(T) dated 03.07.2019 as well as in Advertisement No. 2/2020(T) dated 11.06.2020 issued by A.M.U. contending that they are also qualified for post of Lecturer (Chemistry) having a qualification of M.Sc. in ‘Industrial Chemistry’ which could be an “allied subject” i.e. an essential qualification f