MU crisis: President suspends VC till completion of probe

Imphal | Wednesday | 19th September, 2018

Summary:

The probe panel is headed by retired acting chief justice of Meghalaya high court T Nandakumar Singh as chairman and MK Choudhury, retired VC of Tezpur University as member. Governor Najma Heptulla had told the agitating MU Students' Union (Musu) that she would extend her efforts to resolve the crisis by intimating the President of latest developments. Following a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) signed between the MU community, the Centre and the state government, the independent inquiry began in Imphal about a fortnight ago. "Peeved with the setting up of the probe panel, Pandey had challenged the MoA in the Manipur high court.Recently, chief minister N Biren Singh said the MoA is binding on all parties and there should not be any confusion on it. IMPHAL: The President has suspended the vice-chancellor of the Centre-run Manipur University , Adya Prashad Pandey, providing a fresh twist to the ongoing impasse surrounding allegations of administrative and financial irregularities against him..