In the RTI response, NUJS claimed that Navin Thayyil, a PhD scholar from the Netherlands who applied to NUJS in December 2012, was denied a Skype interview, because “interview by Skype cannot be held for the post of Assistant Professor (Law) since demonstration lecture is to be given by the candidate”.
However, former VC MP Singh told Legally India that he had granted Skype interviews during his tenure to applicants Anup Surendranath and Yashumati Ghosh, adding that he may have also interviewed others via Skype, which “the records of the time may disclose”.
According to several NUJS sources, an English professor was also recently appointed at the college after a Skype interview without having required to take any demonstration classes.
A senior member of NUJS staff told Legally India that the information in the RTI was supplied directly by the vice chancellor’s office and added that at the time of Thayyil’s application there was no requirement for applicants to do demonstration classes.
Former NUJS professor Shamnad Basheer raised the issue of Thayyil’s interview in his resignation letter in December 2013, noting that “I took issue with your refusal to grant a Skype interview to a very promising Indian scholar from the Netherlands, owing to which we effectively lost him to IIT Delhi. You will recollect that the Executive Council also took strong note of this and recommended that Skype interviews be granted to scholars who are unable to fly at short notice to Kolkata.”
A petition by NUJS alumni, which has ostensibly been signed by nearly 500 students and alumni, claimed that “a former student of the VC was appointed as Assistant Professor” instead of Thayyil, and that “we are also given to believe that the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor sat in on the selection committee which appointed two of his former students (to whom he served as PhD guide) to the position of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. We are given to believe that he failed to disclose this conflict of interest to the Executive Council which ratified the appointments.”
In an NUJS executive council meeting around 2012, Vivek Kumar, the West Bengal education secretary, had asked if Bhat had any personal relations with any persons who were appointed or promoted at NUJS’ faculty.
Bhat confirmed to Legally India that he had responded to Kumar, stating “I have no personal relation with any of them”, but added that he was merely a “guide” to two faculty members who were respectively hired and promoted, and who were studying a PhD and an LLM at Mysore University, where he was vice chancellor at the time.
Tomorrow the executive council will also most likely consider allegations raised by students about whether there have been irregularities in certain contracts at the college.
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Through this website of LI , I make an open appeal to Hon'ble Members of NUJS of EC :
All scams in NUJS to be opened by the EC of NUJS in the executive council. '
We assure the Members that once the notice for looking into the documents on the scams in NUJS are published in the website of NUJS , we will on the same day appear in NUJS with all documents as evidence.
We also appeal for the presence of M.P.Singh and Ishwar Bhatt and former and present Registrar of NUJS in the above hearing so that all their scams are exposed in front of them giving them an opportunity to defend themselves on the contents of the documents in accordance to the principles of natural justice .
All the papers and the contents of the scam to be then uploaded in the public domain after the above.
The members who will be looking in to the documents will not be any person associated with NUJS so that there is no opportunity for biasness.
Hope LI will not block my above comment and will forward the above open appeal to the EC Meeting
Why has Kejriwal not held a dharna regarding this issue yet?
The RTI application date was 21.12.2013 seeking for information under RTI.
PIO NUJS letter was dated 20.12.2013 supplying the information under RTI.
It is shocking to note that the PIO of NUJS who is the Registrar of NUJS supplied the information under RTI one (1) day before of receiving the application seeking information under RTI ACT. ?
What is this ?
Please don't get surprised this NUJS a National Law School of India who are quite busy in making scams in NUJS ..........
Quoting insider:
Do not worry we are watching the happenings in EC meetong. If Justice is denied next step will be taken by us........
Students not allowed to enter EC meeting even after having been publicly promised so by the Vice Chancellor, chairman of the EC.
Quoting Over:
We all feel sorry for the students. EC should remind themselves that they are the members of. EC of NUJS where the students pay their fees & others enjoy their remuneration from the students fees. Why the students wont be heard ? Is it that they fear the pandora boc will be opened ?. If EC is serious why did not they take a resolution for a CBI enquiry when students has exposed financial scam in NUJS ? If EC do not allow student representative to speak then let them return their temunetation to the students. Let the CBI step in all will be exposed........
They. know everything.....but still they remain silent. and call them Legally India
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JUSTICE TO BE DENIED that is what been taught in NUJS.....and that is why people like M.P.Singh & Ishear Bhatt are made VC. Never such. had been taught by Chimni , Madhav Menon & Banerjea.
Justice will be swift and severe.. We are the hounds of justice... Nobody will be spared...
We are watching you
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Nobody is an angel here. Maybe one of the reasons why LI has been largely silent on this whole issue is because they know that there is more than meets the eye. After the EC meeting LI will hopefully bring out the real facts instead of giving in to hysteria.
Did u expect anything more from LI ?
P.S.: I don't give VC any clean chit.Irregularities should be probed.If necessary heads should roll.
Everyone of us to write an email to Mr. Arnab Goswami to make a national debate in News Hour if we all want to save the Legal education of our Country.
Let Mr. Goswami invite M.P.Singh , Ishwar Bhatt , Mr. D. Mukhopadhyay former Registrar and Mr. Surojit Mukhopadhyay present Registrar of NUJS and EC Members.
Let Mr. Goswami during the News hour debate open the phone line so that the people can make their points directly to M.P. Singh and Ishwar Bhatt, Mr. D. Mukhopadhyay and Mr. Surojit Mukhopadhyay present Registrar of NUJS and EC Members of NUJS.
Sitting Judges and ex-Judges who wants to participate in the debate may be also invited. UGC Chairman , MHRD Secretary , BCI Chairman and WB Judicial minister may also be invited.
Let us all save the LEGAL EDUCATION in NUJS .
Sir, we take up the challenge.
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