Submit status report on probe against two former KSOU V-Cs: High Court
BENGALURU, JUNE 04, 2019 00:00 IST
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the State government to submit a status report by June 24 on the investigation based on the FIR registered against two former vice-chancellors of the Mysuru-based Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) on alleged illegalities in recruitments and financial transactions.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar passed the interim order on a PIL petition filed by the Karnataka State Universities and Colleges Backward Classes and Minority Teachers’ Association, Mysuru.
The petitioner sought a direction to the State government to initiate a proper and decisive criminal prosecution of K.S. Rangappa and M.G. Krishna, former KSOU vice-chancellors, and four professors based on an inquiry report in 2015 by a retired High Court judge, which was accepted by the Chancellor with the remark that criminal prosecution is required to be initiated under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC.
Also, the association questioned the act of the Additional Chief Secretary of the Higher Education Department, who had given an endorsement to the association’s representation in June 2017 stating that no further action is required against the persons as a complaint was already lodged with Jayalakshmipuram police in Mysuru in August 2016.
It was claimed in the petition that the Chancellor and the State government failed to initiate action against the former vice-chancellors despite the inquiry report clearly stating the illegalities. The association said the pleas filed by Mr. Rangappa and six others, questioning the criminal case against them in August 2016, was dismissed by the High Court in November 2016.
BENGALURU, JUNE 04, 2019 00:00 IST
The Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the State government to submit a status report by June 24 on the investigation based on the FIR registered against two former vice-chancellors of the Mysuru-based Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) on alleged illegalities in recruitments and financial transactions.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice P.S. Dinesh Kumar passed the interim order on a PIL petition filed by the Karnataka State Universities and Colleges Backward Classes and Minority Teachers’ Association, Mysuru.
The petitioner sought a direction to the State government to initiate a proper and decisive criminal prosecution of K.S. Rangappa and M.G. Krishna, former KSOU vice-chancellors, and four professors based on an inquiry report in 2015 by a retired High Court judge, which was accepted by the Chancellor with the remark that criminal prosecution is required to be initiated under provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act and IPC.
Also, the association questioned the act of the Additional Chief Secretary of the Higher Education Department, who had given an endorsement to the association’s representation in June 2017 stating that no further action is required against the persons as a complaint was already lodged with Jayalakshmipuram police in Mysuru in August 2016.
It was claimed in the petition that the Chancellor and the State government failed to initiate action against the former vice-chancellors despite the inquiry report clearly stating the illegalities. The association said the pleas filed by Mr. Rangappa and six others, questioning the criminal case against them in August 2016, was dismissed by the High Court in November 2016.
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