The division bench of High Court comprising of chief justice, Ramalingam Sudhakar and justice, Kh. Nobin has halted the hearing of the petition filed by Manipur University vice-chancellor, Adya Prasad Pandey.
As a similar case is still pending before the Supreme Court, the high court cannot proceed for further hearing of the case without knowing the directives of the apex court.
According to source, the hearing of the case is likely to be fixed on September 28.
On September 4, Pandey filed a writ petition before the high court challenging the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed between the varsity community, state government and the Centre on August 16 to probe into the allegations made agains
t him by the varsity community.
The petition filed before had stated that the MoA cannot be accepted because it was signed following pressure of the varsity community and moreover official representative of the Manipur University is not a party in the signing of the agreement. It also mentioned that the chairman of the reconstituted two member inquiry committee is a close relative of a spokesperson of MUTA and hence it is likely to have bias in the inquiry report.
Later on September 10, Pandey filed a special leave petition before the Supreme Court and as per the information uploaded in the Supreme Court website and tentatively case is likely to be listed on September 24.
The respondents of the case filed before the Supreme Court are, joint secretary of HRD ministry representing the Union of India, professor of physics department, MU, Dorendrajit Singh, registrar (in-charge) of MU representing the Manipur University and state chief secretary representing the state government.
The counsel of the petitioner is advocate, Kamakshi S. Mehlwal and the counsel of the respondents is Leishangthem Roshmani.
Source Imphal Free Press
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