Incidentally, the probe has reportedly been ordered at the behest of four students facing a probe for misbehaving with the VC. The other members of the panel are R N Pandey and N R Verma, both education department officers. The VC has also been accused of drinking in the official chamber.The education department secretary has been quoted in the media as saying that the inquiry committee has been formed after receiving complaints of financial irregularities against the VC.Reports said that Varun Choudhary, and three other students were banned from entering the University campus as on August 29 last they heckled the VC. Incidentally, the new VC joined the office on August 2 itself. What prompted them to misbehave with a new VC and that too an outsider, could not be known.

Apart from financial irregularities, Choudhary and the three other students accused the VC of appointing people of his caste as members of the sports panel and the cultural committee. The Vice Chancellor was visibly shocked over the constitution of a probe panel against him at the behest of a few rowdy elements. He claimed that the College of Arts and Crafts, Patna, got permanent teachers under his tenure. He said he had introduced awards for undergraduate students and teachers for the academic growth of the University. “If I face a probe at the behest of some troublemongers,it will be very sad,” he said.

Prof Shiva Jatan Thakur, a former teacher of English and ex-member of the Bihar Public Service Commission, has strongly denounced the decision of the state government to constitute an inquiry committee to probe into the charges of irregularities against the VC. It is a blatant violation of the statutory law. Referring to Section 10(2) of the Patna University Act, 1976, Prof Thakur said the power to constitute an inquiry committee has been conferred exclusively on the Chancellor alone. There are many in the academic circle who are shocked at this move of the state government.

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