The Madras high court has ordered a CBI
probe into all the faculty appointments made
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
from 1995 to 2000.
Disposing a petition filed in 1996 by Dr
Vasantha Kandasamy the court on Thursday
ordered her elevation as professor in the Math
Department. Besides the promotion she will
also get 17 increments.
"I have fought the battle for the last 17 years.
If people with real credentials were given the
post, I would not have fought. It is
unfortunate that people with a second class
MSc and without any proper PHD guidance and
publications are being appointed to the post of
associate professor," Vasantha told HT.
Vasantha was appointed as assistant professor
in 1990. Despite being qualified she was denied
appointment as associate professor in 1995.
She was also ignored for the position of
professor in 1996.
"The high court has directed a CBI probe into
the correctness and the legality of the
appointments made in IIT Madras from 1995
till September 26, 2000," says M
Radhakrishnan, advocate for the petitioner.
Vasantha was the only eligible candidate to be
appointed as a professor in 1996 but she was
denied, he added.
Maintaining that the constitution of selection
committee was illegal, he said: " While no
criteria of selection was prescribed, two
persons who were even ineligible to even
apply were given faculty positions."
Registrar of IIT Madras VG Bhoma told HT that
they were waiting for the court order. " We do
not know the exact wording of the order. Once
we get the order, we will plan a further line of
action.
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