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Gujarat varsity VC held
AHMEDABAD - Gujarat University Vice-Chancellor Dr Parimal Trivedi was arrested on Tuesday in a three-year old atrocity case filed against him by a college professor. A local court later granted him a conditional bail after asking him to furnish a Rs25,000 bond and surrender his passport.
Prof Pankaj Shrimali, who hails from a Dalit community, a socially backward and underprivileged class, had lodged a complaint with the scheduled caste/ scheduled tribe cell of the Gujarat University police station on May 3, 2008 under the Prevention of Atrocities Act. He had accused Trivedi of making abusive casteist remarks at him in the presence of another professor. Fearing arrest, Dr Trivedi, heading the state’s biggest university running 300 colleges, had been missing for the last two days and had been scoffing at the charges leveled against him, terming them ‘fake’.
After no headway was made in the case, Shrimali moved the Gujarat High Court two months ago by filing a petition. The court ordered the city police to conclude the probe and submit the report by February 21.
Discontented with the tardy pace of progress, Shrimali had also complained to the city police commissioner. The police are also inquiring into charges of corruption against Dr Trivedi. A suspended professor, Pradip Prajapati, has accused him of indulging in corruption worth millions of rupees in connivance with other officials.
According to his complaint, Dr Trivedi entrusted a massive contract of printing of examination question and answer papers to Wilson Printing Press Private Ltd but the contract which ran between 2007 and 2011 led to a loss of Rs15 million to the university.
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