One of the conditions for the increments was that an employee should have obtained Ph.D before 1996.
In this case, the professor, Dr Bharti Sen, had got Doctorate degree in September 1997, said the University's counsel Rui Rodrigues.
The petitioner was appointed as lecturer in June 1986 and ten years later she became a Reader in Library Science. At that time (1996), the qualification needed for the post was having a Ph.D., or equivalent published works.
In 1997, she did her Ph.D and in 1999 the authorities came out with a government resolution which provided that those teachers who have a Ph.D would get two increments after putting in eight years as a Reader.
But later, the University withdraw her increments as she had obtained Ph.D after the cut-off date of 1996.
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