Kerala High Court Quashes Suspension Order Against College Professors Finding Their Suspension ‘Premeditated’
Case: Gouri Dev S.B & Ors. v. University Grants Commission & Ors. and connected matters
Coram: Justice Devan Ramachandran
Case No.: WP(C) NO. 23694 OF 2021
Court Observation: “…the order of suspension is dated 8.10.2021, in which, the issuing Authority records that the allegations against Sri.T.Abhilash are frivolous and false, though it is unreservedly admitted that the ‘ICC Report’ came only on 19.10.2021. Clearly, the action against the petitioners can be suspected to be premeditated.”
“When one views this from the prism of the allegations of the students that the ‘ICC Report’ is one issued without properly adverting to the evidence, certainly, I find force in the suggestion that a new ICC will have to be constituted and a report settled by it in terms of law. Of course, this committee will have to be as per the ‘Regulations’…and will have to proceed as per the statutory mandate.”
“the suspension of the ‘Assistant Professors’ cannot appeal to me because, the allegation against them is not that they had participated in a program objected to by the College, but solely that they had supported Smt.Swapna Gopinath”
“It is rather baffling that a moralistic and extremely patriarchal stand should be adopted by the College in holding that even a reference to drinking among lady teachers would cause deprivation of the moral standards of their students.”
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