FIR has been registered following a preliminary inquiry into multiple charges of corruption
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked a former vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, in West Bengal’s Birbhum on multiple charges of corruption.
The FIR has been registered following a preliminary inquiry into three complaints, lodged with the Central Vigilance Commission in 2012-13, alleging financial irregularities by Professor Sushanta Dattagupta, the then Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University. He was removed from the post in 2016.
The CBI inquiry, started in July 2018, revealed that Prof. Dattagupta allegedly received excess payment of more than ₹13.38 lakh by suppressing the information that he was receiving pension from his earlier employment with the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
The Executive Committee headed by him wrongly fixed…