My top 10 in this hall of shame. All were removed after student protests except 3 and 10 AFAIK.

1. Sukhpal, HNLU

2. SS Singh, NLIU

3. Amit Talukdar, NUJS

4. Ishwar Bhat, NUJS

5. Nirmal, NLU Ranchi

6. Veer Singh, NALSAR

7. Jaswal, RGNUL

8. Jaswal’s wife, HPNLU

9. That dude kicked out of CNLU, ex-NALSAR Registrar

10. VS Elizabeth, TNNLU

In my floating academic career I have come across half a dozen VC and have tracked the progress of a few more. In my personal opinion Bhatt has the dubious distinction of being the worst VC in terms of an administrator and person. He suffered from a curious form of policy paralysis whereby he would take a decision reverse it at the slightest protest and then try to sneakily bring that back paddle back and then fret over it. Apart from personal frailties like casteism, chauvinism etc. he also has little vision of building an institution and was more interested in personal gratification like extending his tenure. He let go of the best faculty members that NLUs have ever seen (last couple of years of MP singh). He entered into a faustian bargain with the WB law minister and introduced domicile quota, he also green lighted the second campus, but thankfully a powerful EC member stopped it. He got some land but not the money to build. Like many on the list by OP Bhatt also centralised power to an extent that he would personally intervene on the choice of mopheads to be bought for cleaning floors. I wonder if he had spent more time on academics and retain the talent like Sudhir, Shamnad, Jasmine, Prabhash et al. There is a report which states that over two dozen faculty members quit in the first term of Bhatt. All of them had joined when either Chimni or MP singh were VCs.

NK Chakrabarti as VC and Raja Chakraborty as registrar have been phenomenal for NUJS. They're strong action takers and are working hard to maintain reputation and legacy of nujs. Unfortunate that college didn't have permanent registrar for 7 years. This defamation campaign must be stopped. Showcause notices should be served to those who defame

this also includes current NALSAR VC, under whose regime most of the star faculty of NALSAR left. Which he hasnt exactly been able to replace considering many of the newly hired professors who can match the same quality of education. Hope his term gets over soon and some other competent professor can take over.

Why are you forgetting NLU Assam VC who had to quit after protests whose neighbour put weird allegations against him about flashing?

MNLU Nagpur guy who brought a situation that salary not paid to staff. Corruption in faculty recruitment, building construction etc also expected.

NALSAR current VC who’s making things bad with good faculty leaving and no alumni joins as faculty.

NLUD where VC alleged of nepotism and corruption in PhD evaluation when he was NLIU prof and was asked to leave.

MNLU Mumbai where all VCs responsible to run the university in a shabby rented building for decades and not working hard to get land and building in place.

NLU Haryana where a degree college principal with no background in law became VC because her husband was senior IPS in the state

So many more cases. NLUs need to rethink about their administration model. Making VC everything and giving him/ her all the powers is extremely bad system

Gonna add to the Poonam Pradhan Saxena hate. I work in an insanely hectic T1 team (about 2 PQE) and at no point has it ever been as bad as a single day at NLUJ under PPS' reign - this should speak volumes. Woman left me, and several others, with deep mental scars. She's petty enough to be read this, but not human enough to feel anything by it.

SJA tried to uninstall him in 2016. A certain star (chair) professor and his acolytes tried regime change when back-to-back SH allegations against SC judges by females NUJS interns surfaced in the media. Both times PIB was saved by a certain CJI. When the SJA railed against PIB in 2018, this ex-CJI had departed. Although the TMC apparatchiks are being rightly blamed, please do not forget the pushback from an influential section of Cal HC (and those who get elevated from here to SC). They desperately tried to keep PIB in chair. Although SJA outsmarted them then, the inquiries were killed off. They are also the same clique who brought in Lord Taluk and NKC and are unwilling to let the latter go unless a similar front wo/man is found.