By TCN News,
Aligarh: President of India Pratibha Patil has reportedly ordered a fresh inquiry into alleged financial irregularities at Aligarh Muslim University. Senior officials of AMU including Vice-Chancellor P. K. Abdul Azis are allegedly involved in the irregularities, says a PTI report.
The President has re-constituted the two-member inquiry panel which was set up in July last year but could not submit its report as its members retired Justice Fakhruddin of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and A. H. Jung, former Secretary to the Government of India, resigned in October.
The new panel will have retired Justice Bashir Ahmed Khan of the Delhi High Court and retired Justice Akbar N. Divecha of the Gujarat High Court. The committee has been given two months to submit its report.
According to the news agency report, a report submitted by the Principal Accountant-General of Uttar Pradesh to the Union HRD Ministry had acknowledged financial irregularities in AMU and charged the V-C with irregularity in travel allowance claims and purchase of car worth Rs.12.5 lakh.
V-C P. K. Abdul Azis, however, has repeatedly rejected the allegations of financial irregularities.