Kochi ∙ The High Court is hearing a petition alleging that Priya Varghese, wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s private secretary KK Ragesh, does not have enough teaching experience to be appointed to the post of associate professor at Kannur University. A bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran will deliver the verdict. It is requested that Dr Priya Varghese, who is second on the appointment list, be excluded from the appointment list. The petition was filed by Joseph Scaria. The High Court had earlier stayed the appointment of Priya Varghese on the petition.
The court observed that teachers are nation builders. The court explains the arguments of both sides. The court criticized Priya Varghese’s Facebook post against the High Court’s criticism. The court said that what was happening was undesirable. The court said that he did not remember saying the matter of digging a pit. Justice Devan Ramanchandran said he was also part of the NSS.
The National Service Plan has not been discussed. The court decided that what happened in court should stay in court. However, the lawyer said that Priya was contemptuous of the court’s comments. The other day, in response to the harsh criticism of the High Court during the hearing of the petition, Priya posted ‘Not a hole for the National Service Scheme, but a toilet but only pride’.
The contention in the petition is that Priya Varghese went for PhD studies and went on to deputize as director of students, so she is not teaching. However, Priya’s counsel argued that both of these can be counted as teaching experience and that she held the additional responsibility of AMC Coordinator while a director of students.
He said unspecified qualifications should not be raised in court before the court’s screening committee, which raised questions such as whether he had taught during deputation and when he was a trainee director, and whether the role of ACF co-ordinator had been demonstrated in the application as teaching. experience. Counsel for the UGC had explained that it can only be considered teaching if it is carried out together with research and teaching and that is not the case here.
Priya Varghese had posted against this on Facebook and later retracted it. Among the 6 people considered for the appointment of associate professor, Priya was the lowest in the research score. After the interview, Priya Varghese, who was the first with 651 marks, replaced Joseph Scaria, who was the first with 651 marks, and came second after the interview. Priya got 32 marks in the interview and Joseph Skaria got 30. Governor Arif Muhammad Khan froze the process of appointing an associate professor after the controversy over giving first rank to Priya Varghese.
English Summary: Kerala High Court Order on Appointment of Priya Varghese
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