Hyderabad, March 4 -- The Telangana High Court on Tuesday, March 3, issued notices to the state government and Osmania University Vice-Chancellor Kumar Molugaram after a professor alleged that Molugaram had stalled his promotion for appropriating his academic citation.

Dr P Kamalakar, a faculty member from the Botany Department, in his petition, alleged that he was denied promotion as a senior professor in September 2025, to which he was entitled under the University Grants Commission's (UGC) career advancement programme, according to a report published in Deccan Chronicle.

Prabhakar Sripada, the petitioner's counsel, argued that Kamalakar, along with some other teaching faculty members, had questioned the authenticity of the VC's claim...