The High Court in Carnation abolished the Governor’s Order of the appointment of Meery BK under the rector Maharani Cluster University, Bengaluru, and at the same time pointed out that she was not the highest Dean/Director to qualify to be VC VC in various provisions of Karnataka, 2000.
Justice R. Nataraj approved the order and partly allowed the petition filed by TM Manjunath, who is the highest dean/director at the university. The petitioner questioned 28 March 2025 Governor Regulation in the appointment of Mrs. Meer as the reigning VC, unlike Section 16 (2) of the Act.
‘If the status requires a particular act to be done in a special way, it must be done in this way or at all.
It will point out that although Mrs. Meera was previously appointed university director, she did not take accusations as the post of director, but remained as a professor at the Ministry of Zoology, the court said that she was not even a director who should be considered as the position of acting acting under the law.
While she refuses to accept the objections of the Chancellor and the State Government that the highest most professor was chosen as an acting VC because Varsity primarily provides girls’ students, the court said that this “claim is not justified as a special secretary of the Governor/Chancellor.
“Except that, there is nothing in the record that finds that Maharani Cluster University is a female university where VC should be a woman as in the case of Akkamahadevi University,” the court stressed.
Although the court refused to order the Chancellor to consider only the petitioner (Mr. Manjunath) to be the reigning VC, because it is discretion of the Chancellor to name the post, the Chancellor to consider freedom to consider the petitioner, if it is eligible if it is assigned to office.
Published – May 23, 2025 22:47
