KU: Pro-Congress union leaders served notice

Show-cause notices were served to them for issuing a press release which the varsity claimed to be defamatory to it.
Kerala University (ENS)
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala University Registrar K A Hashim on Tuesday served show-cause notices on the president and general secretary of the pro-Congress staff union for giving press statements on the alleged corruption in the written test for appointment of drivers in the university.

Show-cause notices were issued to V P Abdul Rahman and S Prasannan, both assistant registrars and the president and general secretary of the union respectively, for issuing a press release which the university claimed to be defamatory to it.

Later, following a complaint registered by the Registrar, the Cantonment Police arrested Senate members Chamakkala Jyothikumar and S Mansi who had gone to the Registrar’s office for holding talks on the issue. Following this, pro-Congress staff union members took out a protest march in the university. The Senate members were released by the police later.

The Senate members alleged that the show-cause notices were biased.

They alleged that earlier when the pro-CPM Union issued a press notice against the Vice-Chancellor’s office, no such memo was issued. They demanded the withdrawal of the show-cause notice immediately.

Later, the university in a press statement, said that the allegations in the release issued by the pro-Congress unions were false and refuted the allegation that the answer papers for the driver recruitment test were valued without putting false numbers. False numbers were put in the answer sheets in 2007 itself, the release said.

There were defamatory statements against the Registrar in the statement issued by the pro-Congress union.

Hence, show-cause notices were issued as per statute 62 and 74 of the Kerala University Statute, Kerala Government Servants Conduct Rules and section 166 of the Kerala University Office Manual, the statement said.

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