Chandigarh, February 28
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today sought details of contractual and ad hoc appointments made by Punjabi University’s former Vice Chancellor SS Boparai. The direction came during the resumed hearing of a PIL filed by Santosh Kumari and four other unemployed lecturers.
They are seeking direction to the university to review the selections and appointments made by the former Vice Chancellor during his tenure from August 2001 to November 2007.
As the case came up before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Mahesh Grover, Punjab Additional Advocate-General stated that the assertion on March 12, 2010, that no criminal offence against Boparai was made out, was tentative.
He told the Bench that the competent authority in the State Government would take a final decision within two weeks from today on the issue of determining his criminal liability regarding 400 appointments to various posts in the university on ad hoc or contract basis, without inviting applications from all eligible persons through open advertisement. The Division Bench directed the university to provide details of number of contractual and ad hoc appointments made by Boparai and also state how many of them had been again given employment on regular or ad hoc basis after initiating the advertisement process.
Information has also been sought regarding the stage of selecting candidates on 191 (non-teaching) posts advertised by the university and a time frame for making regular appointments to the remaining teaching and non-teaching posts.
The State was directed to apprise the court of its final decision in regard to criminal liability of Boparai against whom a vigilance inquiry report was submitted. The PIL has now been adjourned to March 29 for further hearing.
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