SHILLONG: The absconding chancellor of CMJ University Chandra Mohan Jha made a sudden appearance before police here on Wednesday at around 3-30pm, first time after the controversy surrounding him hit the academia.
Jha appeared before the Investigation Officer after the Supreme Court recently directed him to report at CID headquarters here on September 20 for interrogation.
Informing this here on Wednesday, SP Sharma, legal advisor to CMJ Foundation, said that interrogation of Jha has started and the process would continue for few more days.
On possibility of Jha’s arrest, Sharma said, “There is no question of arresting him since he has already secured anticipatory bail from the Supreme Court.”
“He only has to report to police,” Sharma said adding that Jha also clarified his stand on media reports about the judgment of the apex court about the approval for dissolution of CMJ University.
He said the Supreme Court while disposing off the special leave petition gave three months time to the state government to take a decision on the recommendation of former Governor Ranjit Shekhar Mooshahary to dissolve CMJ University under section 48 of the CMJ Act, 2009.
According to Sharma, CMJ Foundation is concerned about those students whose futures are at stake owing to the ongoing imbroglio in the university.
He also said if some individuals in the University had committed mischief, the credibility of University cannot be questioned “since CMJ University is founded through legislation.”
As per the judgment of the Supreme Court, students whose admissions and degrees were declared illegal may also make representation to the State Government and seek an opportunity of hearing from it.
“The requests made by them shall be sympathetically considered by the State Government’ the apex court order had asserted.
On April 30 this year, Mooshahary had highlighted various alleged irregularities of the university.
He had pointed out then that the university had enrolled students in various courses where in 2010-11, 176 students were enrolled, in 2011-12 (469 students) and in 2012-13 (2,734 students). However, Mooshahary had said that all these enrolments were “illegal”.
He had pointed out that the university had awarded PhD degrees to 434 students during 2012-13, and had enrolled 490 students for the PhD programme during 2012-2013.