High court issues notice to law univ vice-chancellor
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:20.03.2019
The Madras high court on Tuesday ordered notice to the vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Tamma Suryanarayana Sastry on a plea seeking direction to show under what authority he is holding the post.
Justice S M Subramaniam passed the interim order on the plea moved by advocate M K Gauthaman, a resident of Tiruvannamalai.
According to the petitioner, Sastry has usurped the office, as he does not fulfil the requisite qualifications as per his appointment. The university is established under the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Act, 1996.
“The objective, as apparent from the act, is to impart quality legal education and, in that context, a vice-chancellor is a pivotal person. Such a situation is distinguishable from a multi-discipline university, where the vice-chancellor can be of any of the disciplines. Thus, a vice-chancellor of the law university must be possessed of sufficient attributes of law and legal education to make him entitled for appointment to the post,” the petitioner said.
Sastry, during his course of teaching in Pondicherry University from November 1, 1988, to March 14, 2006, never made any substantial contribution in law or any course of law that makes him eligible for the post, he alleged.
“The university being exclusively for law, the rules of legal education laid down by the Bar Council of India would be applicable, more specifically Rule 16, which says that there shall be a principal for each constituent or affiliated centre of legal education of a university and a dean for the university department, who shall have minimum prescribed qualification in law as prescribed by the UGC for respective position or a professor of law to hold deanship, as the case may be,” the petitioner pointed out.
The VC of a law university must be possessed of sufficient attributes of law and legal education to make him entitled for appointment to the post
M K Gauthaman
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:20.03.2019
The Madras high court on Tuesday ordered notice to the vice-chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Tamma Suryanarayana Sastry on a plea seeking direction to show under what authority he is holding the post.
Justice S M Subramaniam passed the interim order on the plea moved by advocate M K Gauthaman, a resident of Tiruvannamalai.
According to the petitioner, Sastry has usurped the office, as he does not fulfil the requisite qualifications as per his appointment. The university is established under the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Act, 1996.
“The objective, as apparent from the act, is to impart quality legal education and, in that context, a vice-chancellor is a pivotal person. Such a situation is distinguishable from a multi-discipline university, where the vice-chancellor can be of any of the disciplines. Thus, a vice-chancellor of the law university must be possessed of sufficient attributes of law and legal education to make him entitled for appointment to the post,” the petitioner said.
Sastry, during his course of teaching in Pondicherry University from November 1, 1988, to March 14, 2006, never made any substantial contribution in law or any course of law that makes him eligible for the post, he alleged.
“The university being exclusively for law, the rules of legal education laid down by the Bar Council of India would be applicable, more specifically Rule 16, which says that there shall be a principal for each constituent or affiliated centre of legal education of a university and a dean for the university department, who shall have minimum prescribed qualification in law as prescribed by the UGC for respective position or a professor of law to hold deanship, as the case may be,” the petitioner pointed out.
The VC of a law university must be possessed of sufficient attributes of law and legal education to make him entitled for appointment to the post
M K Gauthaman
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