Chennai: The Madras high court has dismissed two quo warranto petitions, to showcause under what authority K. Krishnan Baskar continues to hold the office of the Vice Chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.
Justice R. Suresh Kumar dismissed the petitions filed by T. Manohara Justus and A. Srinivasan, a retired Associate Professor and Professor respectively.
The judge said, “Since Krishnan Baskar was having the required and in fact more qualification than required to hold the post of Vice Chancellor and there is no evidence to suggest that, the search committee has not acted properly in recommending the name of Krishnan Baskar, this court has no hesitation to hold that, the petitioners have not made out any case to issue notice questioning Krishnan Baskar as to under what authority he was holding the post of the Vice-Chancellor of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University”.
The judge said since Krishnan Baskar was having academic qualification as Assistant Professor for 9 years, Associate Professor for 8 years and Professor for 7 years, hence, certainly he was having the necessary qualification to hold the post of Vice Chancellor and therefore, the ground alleged by the petitioners against him assailing his appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University does not hold any water and therefore the said ground urged by the petitioners was unsustainable.
