By TwoCircles.net News Desk,
New Delhi: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis said that the University would provide all support to the fact finding Inquiry Committee to complete its work in a fruitful manner. The Humna Resource Development Ministry has constitued a panel to look into allegations of financial misappropriation against VC and other high ranking officials of the university. The VC has refuted all allegations.
The VC has appealed to all students, teachers and non-teaching staff to cooperate with the University administration in the peaceful conduct of classes and other academic and research affairs. The University administration is apprehensive that some vested interest groups might try to exploit this fact finding enquiry as an alibi to destabilize the peace and the prevailing vibrant academic atmosphere of the campus, says Dr Rahat Abrar, Public Relations Officers, AMU.
“The University has received the communication yesterday from the MHRD that the Visitor, the President of India, has constituted a two-member fact finding Inquiry Committee comprising Mr. Justice Fakhruddin, Retired Judge of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh as a Chairman and Mr. A. H. Jung, IAAS, former Secretary to the Government of India under Section 13(2) of the University Act to look into the allegations against the Vice Chancellor leveled by eight EC members, AMU Old Boys’ Association and non-teaching employees and the counter allegations made against the complainants by an 18-member group comprising members of the University Court, EC, Academic Council and AMU Staff Association and on the demand of 23 elected representatives of the various University statutory bodies of the University for a CBI inquiry into the affairs of the University for the last over two decades,” Dr Abrar said.
The University will be appointing the representative under sub-section (2)(c) of Section 13 of the University Act to represent the University with a right to be present and be heard during the fact finding work of the committee. The fact finding committee will submit its report to the Visitor within a period of three months.