Karnataka HC refuses to quash FIR against former Vice-Chancellor of KSOU
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The High Court of Karnataka has declined to quash the legal case registered against a 76-year-old former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) for alleged irregularities in tie-ups with personal establishments. It stated there was “prima facie material to investigate the matter”.
Justice H.P. Sandesh handed the order whereas dismissing a petition filed by K. Sudha Rao, who was Vice-Chancellor of KSOU throughout 2003-2007.
The Mysuru metropolis police had registered an FIR against the petitioner and several other different former Vice-Chancellors and numerous personal establishments. The FIR was based mostly on a grievance lodged by the Registrar of KSOU on November 20, 2019, over the unlawful signing of MoUs with personal establishments past the territory of Karnataka.
KSOU had lodged the grievance based mostly on the course given by the Chancellor of the varsity after a one-man enquiry committee discovered grave errors within the signing of MoU with many personal establishments for educational collaboration.
Based on the grievance, the courtroom famous {that a} particular allegation has been made that “the university, right from the tenure of Prof. K. Sudha Rao, committed a grave error in entering into MoUs with many private persons, firms, societies, trusts, private companies etc., permitting them to admit students to various courses without seeking legal opinion from the State government”.
Multiple MoUs
The severe allegation is that the college entered into MoUs with personal establishments past the jurisdiction of Karnataka and admitted college students to numerous technical, paramedical, and on-line programmes, opposite to the provisions of the KSOU Act, tips/directions issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, and the Medical Council of India, the courtroom famous.
While noting that the primary two such MoUs had been signed throughout Ms. Rao’s tenure, the courtroom stated that the “…matter has to be probed to unearth the crime” when the grievance was lodged on the Governor’s course, based mostly on the findings of the one-man committee.
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