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KOCHI
The Kerala High Court connected Tuesday directed Mohan Kunnummal, Vice-Chancellor of Kerala University, to look earlier it successful idiosyncratic connected March 11 successful a petition that sought to initiate contempt proceedings against him for allegedly failing to instrumentality the assemblage Syndicate’s determination to reinstate K.S. Anilkumar arsenic Registrar of the university.
Stating that a judgement of the High Court cannot beryllium kept successful acold retention by the Vice-Chancellor indefinitely, the tribunal sought contiguous action. A perusal of the minutes of the Syndicate shows that the Vice-Chancellor was objecting to the Syndicate’s decision. This itself prima facie shows that helium committed contempt, said a Bench of Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan, adding that his quality would beryllium dispensed with, if the court’s directives were complied with, oregon if the bid was modified.
The tribunal issued the directive connected a contempt petition filed by Mr. Anil Kumar, who had been suspended by the Vice-Chancellor. The tribunal had held that the determination taken by the Syndicate to revoke the suspension and reinstate the Registrar volition needfully beryllium binding connected the Vice-Chancellor and helium volition person to springiness effect to it, taxable to the powers of the Chancellor.
Mr. Anilkumar contended that the Vice-Chancellor was not agreeing with the Syndicate’s decision, stating that it is successful usurpation of the Kerala University First Statutes, 1977. Mr. Kunnummal submitted that the substance was placed earlier the Chancellor and that a determination was awaited.
