The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the re-appointment of Dr. Gopinath Raveendran as the Vice Chancellor of Kannur University on the grounds that the appointment was vitiated by undue interference from the Government of Kerala.
The Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra observed that though the notification of appointment was issued by the Chancellor in November 2021, the same was vitiated by ‘unwarranted interference’ by the state government.
Setting aside the February 2022 verdict of the Kerala High Court, the Apex Court observed that the Chancellor (Kerala Governor) ‘abdicated or surrendered’ the statutory powers for re-appointing the Vice Chancellor.
In February 2022, a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court had approved the re-appointment of the Vice Chancellor, upholding the December 2021 judgement of the single-judge Bench.
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