Supreme Court of India

Annu Kumar v. Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak

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Bench Dipankar Datta and Manmohan JJ.
Decided 8 September 2026

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What the Court ordered

The civil appeals stand disposed of on the aforesaid terms.

Judgment, 21

In brief

Sat Jinda Kalyana College, Rohtak, affiliated to Maharshi Dayanand University, advertised a post of Assistant Professor in Physical Education on 14th February 2018; the sixth respondent topped the selection and was appointed, while the appellants did not figure in the merit list at all. An RTI reply from Bundelkhand University disclosed that it ran no Ph.D. programme during 2011-2014 and that the sixth respondent never attended any such course, and an affidavit later called for by the Supreme Court from that University described the Ph.D. degree as 'fake and farzi', with the supporting letter and certificate said to be forged/fabricated.…

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