Dehradun, March 22 -- Garhwal Post Bureau
NAINITAL 21 Mar: The Uttarakhand High Court has ruled that the Vice-Chancellor of Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, does not have the authority to issue a chargesheet against any professor.
A Division bench comprising Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Subhash Upadhyay, while disposing of a petition filed by Professor Shivendra Kashyap, directed the university to immediately withdraw the disputed chargesheet. It may be recalled that Kashyap, a professor of Agricultural Communication and coordinator of the DST-TEC (Technology Enabled Centre), had approached the High Court seeking cancellation of the chargesheet dated February 5 and the depart...