Dear Friends,
UGC is about to receive another blow. The Supreme Court Friday agreed to
examine whether rules were bent to admit and confer a PhD degree on the wife of
University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Professor Ved Prakash. Admitting an appeal against a Delhi
High Court
order, a Bench led by Justice R M Lodha issued notices to the chairman's wife, Shimla, the UGC and the Jamia Hamdard Deemed University, where she was admitted as a PhD student in 2008.
order, a Bench led by Justice R M Lodha issued notices to the chairman's wife, Shimla, the UGC and the Jamia Hamdard Deemed University, where she was admitted as a PhD student in 2008.
Advocate Piyush Sharma, who appeared
for petitioner NGO Society for Value and Ethics in Education, requested the
court to examine the matter since the High Court had wrongly refused to
entertain the plea only on the ground that PhD had already stood conferred on
Shimla.
The court accepted his contention and
issued notices to all parties, including Secretary General of Lok Sabha and the
Chancellor of Haryana State Universities where Shimla allegedly worked
full-time and without a day's leave although she pursued her PhD from Jamia in
Delhi. The Bench sought their responses in 10 weeks.
As per the petition, admission in the
PhD programme of the Centre for Federal Studies of Jamia was
"conspiratorially" given to Shimla for wholly extraneous
considerations, since Ved Prakash happened to be her husband.
It
claimed she did not fulfill the minimum requirements like a Master's degree in
certain subjects with at least 55 per cent marks. The plea stated that Shimla
did not have a Master's degree in any of the specified subjects required as per
the prospectus, nor did she secure 55 per cent in the MA (English) course. The
petition also contended that she was employed full-time during the period of
the PhD programme
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