West Bengal Guv removes Jadavpur University officiating VC on disciplinary grounds
Kolkata, Dec 23: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday removed Jadavpur University officiating vice-chancellor Buddhadeb Sau from his post on disciplinary grounds, a Raj Bhavan official said.
The decision was taken a night before the varsity was scheduled to hold its convocation on Sunday.
Bose, the chancellor of all state-run universities, has also constituted an inquiry committee to probe complaints against the officiating VC, the official added.
"The chancellor has removed Jadavpur University officiating VC Buddhadeb Sau from the chair after he received complaints that he was defying orders of the Supreme Court. The chancellor said no VC will be allowed to defy the orders as the Supreme Court is our ultimate hope," the official told PTI.
"An inquiry committee has also been set up to probe complaints received by the chancellor's office against Sau," the official added.
"The authorisation given to Prof Buddhadeb Sau on August 17, 2023 to exercise powers and perform the duties of the office of the VC, Jadavpur University, till further orders, is withdrawn. The order will take immediate effect," the order stated.
Mathematics professor Sau was named JU's officiating vice-chancellor in August.
A Raj Bhavan source told PTI that the chancellor has said he is determined to clean up the universities of Bengal as per law and the decisions of the Supreme Court. The governor also said he will not allow Bengal universities to be destroyed by politics, the source added.
Calling Sunday's convocation "unauthorised", the official said Bose decided to recover the money spent for the event from the salary of Sau and other organisers.
"Students have complained that they had to spend the hard-earned money of their poor parents to come for the illegal convocation convened by the VC under political pressure," he said.
It was also learnt that the chancellor's office has sought legal opinion whether "the money can be recovered from the VC and the political forces which exerted pressure him to convene the illegal convocation."
According to the Raj Bhavan official, strict legal action will be taken against former JU international relations department head Om Prakash Mishra over charges of corruption and harassment.
Mishra, who is also a former VC of North Bengal University, is currently the spokesperson of the pro-Trinamool Congress Educationists Forum.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
