The Supreme Court, on 17th August 2022, held that the UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Career Advancement of Teachers in Universities and Institutions Affiliated to It) Regulations, 2016 would be applied retrospectively.
Relying on a catena of judgments, a Bench comprising Justices U.U. Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia reiterated that when an amendment is merely clarificatory in nature it ought to have retrospective application (University of Kerala And Ors. Etc. v. Merlin J.N. And Etc. Etc).
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