MKU scandal: Santhanam to question Nirmala today
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai: 26.04.2018
R Santhanam, the one-man inquiry panel set up by governor Banwarilal Purohit to probe the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) sex scandal, will meet Nirmala Devi, assistant professor of Devanga Arts College, Arupukottai, at the Madurai central prison on Thursday morning.
Santhanam who began his second phase of inquiry on Wednesday, told mediapersons late in the evening that he had received permission from the prison authorities to meet Devi who was arrested on April 16 for allegedly trying to lure some girl students to do sexual favours for higher officials. Meanwhile, MKU assistant professor V Murugan, who was arrested by CB-CID in connection with the sex scandal, was sent to five days’ police custody on Wednesday. In another development, a former research scholar at the university, Karuppasamy, who was wanted by the CB-CID, surrendered before the Judicial Magistrate V, K S Shabeena, in Madurai who remanded him in prison.
Murugan, who worked in the department of management studies, was arrested on Tuesday and produced before the Sattur judicial magistrate II. He was lodged in the Virudhunagar prison at night and produced by CBCID again in court on Wednesday to seek his custody. Murugan was arrested as his name cropped up in the interrogation of Nirmala Devi during her five day CBCID custody which ended on Wednesday. She too was produced before the court and lodged in central prison as the court ordered her judicial remand for 15 days.
On Wednesday, Santhanam took statements from various higher officials of the university including vice-chancellor P P Chellathurai and registrar V Chinniah. Additional controller of examination M Rajarajan and director of UGC Human Resource Development in MKU, V Kalaiselvan, also appeared before the committee.
Joint director of collegiate education, Madurai, K Koodalingam, told mediapersons that he was not informed by Devanga Arts College about the complaint of the girls.
Scrap Santhanam panel, says forum
Madurai: “Save MKU Coalition”, a forum comprising retired professors, lawyers and social activists, has demanded the scrapping of the one-man Santhanam commission inquiring into the Madurai Kamaraj University sex scandal. Instead, it has demanded a probe by a panel formed with distinguished educationalists and a retired high court judge as members. It claimed that there was no provision in the rules governing MKU for the governor to form an inquiry commission. The outfit said that the Nirmala Devi incident, where she allegedly tried to lure a group of girls to do sexual favours for higher officials in the university, was just the tip of the iceberg. The scandal was an extension of the deteriorating environment in the university in the last few years, the members said. The coalition while expressing confidence in the CB-CID inquiry felt that the probe could have been conducted under the supervision of the high court. TNN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Madurai: 26.04.2018
R Santhanam, the one-man inquiry panel set up by governor Banwarilal Purohit to probe the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) sex scandal, will meet Nirmala Devi, assistant professor of Devanga Arts College, Arupukottai, at the Madurai central prison on Thursday morning.
Santhanam who began his second phase of inquiry on Wednesday, told mediapersons late in the evening that he had received permission from the prison authorities to meet Devi who was arrested on April 16 for allegedly trying to lure some girl students to do sexual favours for higher officials. Meanwhile, MKU assistant professor V Murugan, who was arrested by CB-CID in connection with the sex scandal, was sent to five days’ police custody on Wednesday. In another development, a former research scholar at the university, Karuppasamy, who was wanted by the CB-CID, surrendered before the Judicial Magistrate V, K S Shabeena, in Madurai who remanded him in prison.
Murugan, who worked in the department of management studies, was arrested on Tuesday and produced before the Sattur judicial magistrate II. He was lodged in the Virudhunagar prison at night and produced by CBCID again in court on Wednesday to seek his custody. Murugan was arrested as his name cropped up in the interrogation of Nirmala Devi during her five day CBCID custody which ended on Wednesday. She too was produced before the court and lodged in central prison as the court ordered her judicial remand for 15 days.
On Wednesday, Santhanam took statements from various higher officials of the university including vice-chancellor P P Chellathurai and registrar V Chinniah. Additional controller of examination M Rajarajan and director of UGC Human Resource Development in MKU, V Kalaiselvan, also appeared before the committee.
Joint director of collegiate education, Madurai, K Koodalingam, told mediapersons that he was not informed by Devanga Arts College about the complaint of the girls.
Scrap Santhanam panel, says forum
Madurai: “Save MKU Coalition”, a forum comprising retired professors, lawyers and social activists, has demanded the scrapping of the one-man Santhanam commission inquiring into the Madurai Kamaraj University sex scandal. Instead, it has demanded a probe by a panel formed with distinguished educationalists and a retired high court judge as members. It claimed that there was no provision in the rules governing MKU for the governor to form an inquiry commission. The outfit said that the Nirmala Devi incident, where she allegedly tried to lure a group of girls to do sexual favours for higher officials in the university, was just the tip of the iceberg. The scandal was an extension of the deteriorating environment in the university in the last few years, the members said. The coalition while expressing confidence in the CB-CID inquiry felt that the probe could have been conducted under the supervision of the high court. TNN
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