AMU on Tuesday said a CBI probe has been ordered against its vice chancellor Abdul Azis on charges of alleged financial irregularities at the university.
“We have been asked to submit 48 files to the HRD Ministry for a preliminary CBI enquiry. We have dispatched the required documents yesterday,” AMU registrar VK Abdul Jaleel told PTI.
The HRD Ministry in an urgent missive last Saturday asked the AMU authorities to immediately submit certain crucial files pertaining to financial and administrative issues of the university, raising speculations that the CBI has been asked to probe the matter.
Meanwhile, AMU teachers association has demanded vice chancellor Abdul Azis vacate the post in view of CBI probe against him.
“For a free and fair inquiry it is essential that the person against whom a probe is being conducted should be asked to vacate his post,” Mustafa Zaidi, secretary of Aligarh Muslim University Teaching Association, told reporters here.
He also alleged the AMU authorities of “deliberately” misleading and down playing the issue of CBI probe against Prof. Azis.
“Instead of accepting the inevitability of the CBI probe on financial irregularities, top university officials have tried to down play the issue by claiming that it was the HRD Ministry which was conducting the probe.”
