The Registrar was up for worse. But AG softened the blow. Hence apology. But only because the HC expects this Registrar to demit office soon since GNLU has advertised for a new Registrar.
Registrar has become the fall guy. He couldn't have acted alone in this entire fiasco. But AG is in a fire-fighting mode and the HC can do little if the inquiry report "found nothing" directly concerning the two issues that were highlighted in the media.
Very interestingly, the ex-SC judges (the one who recused and the other who took her place) were art of the inquiry committee that took up the SH complaint against CJI Gogoi; and that too "found nothing"!
Either I'm missing some context here or this comment by the HC makes no sense. The HC acknowledges that the formal inquiry report found nothing to substantiate evidence of rape or harassment, no official complaint was filed with the IC or the authorities, and the Registrar made a statement essentially stating all of the above. What else was the Registrar supposed to do then?
This whole case from start to finish has made very little sense, which is on par for what you'd expect from the Gujarat High Court. The High Court took suo moto cognizance of an Instagram post? Seriously? No names, no details, no evidence, no FIR.
The inquiry committee report is embarrassing for the HC - the bench should have apologized to the university and the chancellor for making a mountain out of a molehill and making it harder for genuine victims to come forward with claims in the future.
Amusing......one NLU is reprimanded for rape and downplaying it, another one does not pay faculty salaries, a third one institutionalizes corruption in the admin, a fourth one hires faculty via the back door, a fifth one restricts students from wearing certain types of clothes, and the circus continues unabated, with the clowns on this platform cheering.
GNLU was becoming Tier 1?
Registrar has become the fall guy. He couldn't have acted alone in this entire fiasco. But AG is in a fire-fighting mode and the HC can do little if the inquiry report "found nothing" directly concerning the two issues that were highlighted in the media.
Very interestingly, the ex-SC judges (the one who recused and the other who took her place) were art of the inquiry committee that took up the SH complaint against CJI Gogoi; and that too "found nothing"!
The inquiry committee report is embarrassing for the HC - the bench should have apologized to the university and the chancellor for making a mountain out of a molehill and making it harder for genuine victims to come forward with claims in the future.