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Karnataka
By Our Staff Correspondent
Mr. Chaturvedi, who is the Chancellor of the university, directed the authorities concerned to annul the award of Ph.D to Saroj Arya for her thesis, "Studies on the nutrient changes during processing and storage of quick cooking pulses processed under different methods'' submitted in 1999. The university Syndicate member, K.Mahadev, had brought to the notice of the Governor that an Inquiry Committee had found the thesis to be plagiarised from a Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) project. But the university failed to place the report of the Inquiry Committee before the university Syndicate for a discussion and instead awarded the Ph.D. Dr. Mahadev had accused the Vice-Chancellor, S.N.Hegde, of deliberately withholding the Inquiry Committee report to facilitate award of Ph.D to Ms. Arya, who carried out her research under the guidance of the Chairman of Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the university, Rudramma. When the Technical Officer of DFRL, Mysore, M.S.Ramakrishna, filed a complaint of plagiarism against the thesis, the university Syndicate appointed a three-member Inquiry Committee comprising the Head, PMC Department, CFTRI, Mysore, B.K.Lonsane, the Chairman Department of Applied Botany, University of Mysore, H.Shekar Shetty, and the Professor of Botany, University of Mysore, S.Shankara Bhat. The complainant, Ramakrishna, provided 133 pages of evidence to the Committee in support of his charge that the thesis had been plagiarised. The inquiry revealed startling similarities in Ms. Arya's thesis submitted in 1999 and the DFRL project published in 1994 and subsequent years, lending credence to the charge of plagiarism. "An in-depth analysis of the evidence put forth by the complainant and a critical evaluation of the inferences he had drawn in the 133-page complaint were found to be factual and every point cited by him was true,'' the report said. The Committee noted that the candidate's father, S.S.Arya, who was the Director of DFRL then, led a team of scientists on a project titled "Scale up of processing and storage of quick cooking dals by different methods'' around the same time when his daughter enrolled for Ph.D. The inquiry committee found that the work reported in the thesis by Ms. Arya involved the same work plan and selection of raw material, as done in the DFRL project published in 1994. "Even the methods used for making pulses cook quickly were the same, so also the measurements of different effects of the treatments on various parameters,'' the inquiry committee report said. The Committee noted that even certain sentences were lifted from the published papers of DFRL project. The general organisation of the paragraphs in the thesis was found to be the same as that reported in the publications of DFRL.
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