In Brief
A Senior Resident seeking promotion to Assistant Professor in Anaesthesiology claimed his two-year Post-Graduate Diploma satisfied the required qualification. The High Court rejected this, treating the diploma as non-equivalent to a required Post-Graduate Degree. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal, holding that equivalence of qualifications must be determined by the competent authority under applicable recruitment rules, not summarily by courts. The Court directed the respondent authority to examine and decide within one month whether the appellant's diploma is equivalent to the required Post-Graduate Degree, free from constraints of prior orders.
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