Supreme Court of India

Gambhirdan K Gadhvi v. The State of Gujarat & Ors

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Reported as [2022] 4 S.C.R. 406
Bench M. R. Shah and B. V. Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 3 March 2022

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above discussion and for the reasons stat ed 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 crite ria was diluted and UGC Regulations, 2018 were violated – Held: Bei ng a subordinate legislation, UGC Regulations becomes part of the Act and in case of any conflict between State legislati on and Central legislation, Central legislation shall prevail by app lying the rule/ principle of repugnancy as enunciated in Art.254 of the Con stitution as the subject ‘education’ is in the concurrent list – By adop ting the scheme and having accepted 80% of the maintenance exp enditure

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned

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