The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday restrained Madurai Kamaraj University from further promoting any person whose promotion was already in dispute.
A Division Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and S. Ananthi passed the order on a public interest litigation petition filed by M. Lionel Antony Raj of Madurai, complaining of large-scale irregularities in previous appointments and promotions in the university.
The petitioner sought a direction to the authorities concerned to implement the final report submitted by a high-level committee and revise promotions and appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff.
He pointed out that people were appointed straight away to various posts in 2017 and 2018 during the stint of P.P. Chelladurai as Vice-Chancellor and V. Chinnaiah as Registrar and no reservation was followed.
The appointment of Mr. Chelladurai as Vice-Chancellor to Madurai Kamaraj University was set aside by the Madras High Court and the order was upheld by the Supreme Court. Though a high-level committee headed by retired High Court Judge G.M. Akbar Ali submitted a report pointing out various irregularities, no steps had been taken to implement the report, the petitioner said.
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