Thiruvananthapuram: Registration Minister G. Sudhakaran has returned the file from the revenue department on the Kerala Law Academy Law College land ownership after it remained in his office for over a week. He said in a note that it was not right to send the file directly to the registration department without Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s office seeing it. The revenue minister had asked the registration minister to get a report from the district registrar on the amendment made to the bylaw of the Law College. If the amendment was made, the institution will have to explain to the Kerala University why this change was not informed to the university.
In case the college could not give a satisfactory explanation, the university may have to even withdraw the affiliation. The bylaw of the academy on the basis of which a memorandum of association was entered into with the government for the formation of the trust in 1968 while seeking land on lease was for constituting a 51- member governing council. However, now the trust has been reduced to a 21- member governing council with the majority from a single family, though the government had substantial representation in the original bylaw.
