IIT-Delhi director Raghunath K Shevgaonkar has Sachin Tendulkar in tizzy

New Delhi: IIT Delhi director Raghunath K.S. Shevgaonkar has resigned with more than two years of his tenure left amid a controversy over the circumstances under which he quit. Mr Shevgaonkar sent his resignation in a letter to chairman of IIT board of governors Vijay P. Bhatkar on Friday evening in which he cited “personal reasons”.

“I have resigned, that’s it,” Mr Shevgaonkar said when asked to react on the row in which cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was also dragged. The HRD ministry denied reports that claimed he resigned after he was put under pressure to accede to two demands — to provide the IIT ground for a cricket academy Tendulkar allegedly wants to open and to pay Rs 70 lakh to former IIT-D faculty and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy as his “salary dues” between 1972 and 1981.