Wednesday, November 20, 2019

DVAC case against former VC

20/11/2019, V. VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, ,THANJAVUR

The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, Thanjavur unit, has booked a case against a former Vice-Chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur, and three others on the charge of committing malpractices and irregularities in the appointment of professors and associate professors.

According to the FIR filed on November 14, G. Baskaran, former V-C, S. Muthukumar, former Registrar, G. Sakthisaravanan, former Personal Assistant to the Registrar, and N. Baskaran, former Distance Education Director, colluded with one another to appoint 10 professors and 11 associate professors in the university, overlooking the norms laid down by the UGC.

For selecting the ineligible candidates for these posts, the four accused reportedly accepted bribes ranging from ₹15 lakh to ₹40 lakh from each person. Further, they created false records and used the forged documents to help 21 candidates selected by them to receive the UGC scale salary. The accused also appointed 70 persons as daily wage employees in non-teaching positions.

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