CBI registered a case against former Visva-Bharati University Vice-Chancellor Professor Sushanta Duttagupta for financial irregularities.
Duttagupta received excess payment to the tune of 13 lac by suppressing facts that he was receiving pension from his employment at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
The action against him was taken after a two-year-long preliminary inquiry into the allegations against him during 2012 and 2013.
In February 2015, the HRD Ministry had constituted a three-member committee to probe complaints of financial and administrative irregularities allegedly committed by Dattagupta.
Based on a September 2015 recommendation made by the Ministry of human resource development (HRD), President Pranab Mukherjee sacked Dattagupta from office on February 15, 2016 – seven months before the end of his term, making him the first VC to be sacked from a…