By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: A month after Governor RS Mooshahary issued a series of directives against the functioning of CMJ University the State CID has still not been able to trace Chandra Mohan Jha, the Chancellor of the University.
It was on April 30 that the Governor had directed the University to submit a fresh proposal for the appointment of the Chancellor and withdraw all the degrees awarded so far. The Governor’s Secretariat also filed an FIR against the University officials after which the CID swung into action and arrested several CMJ University functionaries including the Registrar and Deputy Registrar. The University Director and HR Manager surrendered after arrest warrants were issued against them. However, CM Jha still continues to evade arrest.
A recent statement of Additional Director General of Police (in charge of CID), SK Jain, that Jha will be arrested at ‘an appropriate time’ has perplexed many as this gives an indication that for arresting Jha, the CID sleuths will take their own time and moreover, this will subsequently ensure sufficient time for Jha to come and surrender and also to get bail.
Sources said that the CID knows the whereabouts of Jha, but it is going slow on his arrest compared to the swift action taken against other functionaries of the University.
The lawyer of the University had, recently, denied that Jha was absconding and had clarified that he was in Bihar attending to his ailing father.
It is yet to be known whether the State CID has sent any team to Bihar to trace out Jha.