Supreme Court of India

Gambhirdan K Gadhvi v. The State of Gujarat & Ors

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Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 3 March 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion and for the reasons stated above, the appointment of respondent No.4 as a Vice Chancellor of the SP University – respondent No.2 herein, is contrary to the UGC provisions, namely, UGC Regulations, 2018.

Judgment, page 31

From the headnote

Universities: Appointment of Vice Chancellor – Writ of quo warranto – Writ petition alleging that eligibility criteria was diluted and UGC Regulations, 2018 were violated – Held: Being a subordinate legislation, UGC Regulations becomes part of the Act and in case of any conflict between State legislation and Central legislation, Central legislation shall prevail by applying the rule/ principle of repugnancy as enunciated in Art.254 of the Constitution as the subject ‘education’ is in the concurrent list – By adopting the scheme and having accepted 80% of the maintenance expenditure from the…

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