Setback for Kerala as HC quashes varsity VC's appointment for flouting UGC rules

Kochi: The Kerala high court quashed Monday the appointment of Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (Kufos) vice chancellor K Riji John, holding that UGC regulations were flouted because a single name was recommended instead of the stipulation that a list of several names be given to the chancellor to choose from.

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A division bench of Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly held the 2018 UGC rules cannot be overruled and the search-cum-selection committee had violated the regulations too.