In Brief
Teachers appointed to substantive posts at a university's self-financing college through regular selection, whose appointments stated they were governed by university statutes, were held to be permanent employees entitled to pay revision benefits. The Supreme Court found that the university improperly reclassified permanent appointments as temporary. Despite the self-financed nature of the institution, no explicit stipulation existed classifying the posts as temporary at the time of creation or notification. The court noted the university had consistently described these faculty as permanent in communications to AICTE and in budgets. The decision reversed a Division Bench judgment that had reached the opposite conclusion for similarly situated teachers from the same institution.
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