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Three-member panel to probe university postings

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In response to a directive from the Kerala High Court, the State government has constituted a high power committee chaired by the former judge N. Sukumaran to hold a detailed inquiry into some aspects of the controversy relating to the selection of 18 persons as university assistants in the University of Kerala.

Principal Secretary higher education Kuruvila John and Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) K. Padmakumar will be members of the committee. The committee chairman has been authorised to include a software expert in the committee which will submit its report in three months.

The committee would probe whether the OMR sheets of 40,000-odd candidates who wrote the examination for the post of university assistant were indeed lost as claimed by the university and and whether there was any favouritism in the granting of marks during the selection interview.

The directive of the High Court came in the wake of an appeal filed by the university in response to a verdict of the Upa Lok Ayukta quashing the appointment of all the 182 persons selected and recommending action against the then Vice-Chancellor, the then Pro-Vice-Chancellor and members of the Syndicate who were part of the selection committee.

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