Justice KN Keshavanarayana, a retired judge of the Karnataka High Court, is miffed with the Visvesaraya Technological University (VTU) in Bangalore..The reason?.He has not been remunerated for conducting an inquiry into allegations of irregularities committed by the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof H Maheshappa..After receiving several complaints about the VTU Vice-Chancellor, the Chancellor, Vajubhai Vala proceeded to constitute a one-man fact finding committee to make things clear. Vala also happens to be the Governor of Karnataka. After the initial one-man committee of Justice Ajit J Gunjal was unable to continue, the Governor appointed Keshavanarayana J. to look into the allegations. Pursuant to this, an appointment order was issued on May 8 of last year..The appointment order also specified the remuneration the retired judge would be entitled to for carrying out the inquiry. And the conditions laid out in the order are rather bizarre..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Justice Keshavanarayana said,.“The order states that I would be paid a monthly remuneration of Rs. 80,000 minus the pension, including dearness allowance, I receive as a retired judge. But with dearness allowance, my pension comes up to more than Rs. 80,000..When I told them that this does not work out, they promised to issue a separate order.”.With this promise, Justice Keshavanarayana proceeded to conduct the inquiry and submitted a report on December 30 of last year. On the basis of this report, the Governor issued an order suspending Prof Maheshappa in March this year. Aggrieved, the Vice-Chancellor approached the Karnataka High Court, where a single bench of Justice Raghvendra Chauhan rejected his petition..A writ appeal before a Division Bench of Chief Justice SK Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath was disposed of after giving the petitioner ten days to reply to the state government’s show cause notice..Meanwhile, Justice Keshavanarayana continues his fight to get what is due to him, with VTU officials dallying over the matter. The retired judge says that a second order was issued, but on the same lines as the first..When asked what action he plans to take, he said,.“I have not decided what action to take. I am still waiting for the Governor to make a fresh order.”
Justice KN Keshavanarayana, a retired judge of the Karnataka High Court, is miffed with the Visvesaraya Technological University (VTU) in Bangalore..The reason?.He has not been remunerated for conducting an inquiry into allegations of irregularities committed by the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof H Maheshappa..After receiving several complaints about the VTU Vice-Chancellor, the Chancellor, Vajubhai Vala proceeded to constitute a one-man fact finding committee to make things clear. Vala also happens to be the Governor of Karnataka. After the initial one-man committee of Justice Ajit J Gunjal was unable to continue, the Governor appointed Keshavanarayana J. to look into the allegations. Pursuant to this, an appointment order was issued on May 8 of last year..The appointment order also specified the remuneration the retired judge would be entitled to for carrying out the inquiry. And the conditions laid out in the order are rather bizarre..Speaking to Bar & Bench, Justice Keshavanarayana said,.“The order states that I would be paid a monthly remuneration of Rs. 80,000 minus the pension, including dearness allowance, I receive as a retired judge. But with dearness allowance, my pension comes up to more than Rs. 80,000..When I told them that this does not work out, they promised to issue a separate order.”.With this promise, Justice Keshavanarayana proceeded to conduct the inquiry and submitted a report on December 30 of last year. On the basis of this report, the Governor issued an order suspending Prof Maheshappa in March this year. Aggrieved, the Vice-Chancellor approached the Karnataka High Court, where a single bench of Justice Raghvendra Chauhan rejected his petition..A writ appeal before a Division Bench of Chief Justice SK Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath was disposed of after giving the petitioner ten days to reply to the state government’s show cause notice..Meanwhile, Justice Keshavanarayana continues his fight to get what is due to him, with VTU officials dallying over the matter. The retired judge says that a second order was issued, but on the same lines as the first..When asked what action he plans to take, he said,.“I have not decided what action to take. I am still waiting for the Governor to make a fresh order.”