The order of Director, IIT BHU, Varanasi dated 06.01.2016, in pursuance to resolution no. 3.59 of the meeting of the Board of Governors held on 21.02.2015, terminating the services of Dr. Sandeep Pandey as visiting faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT BHU was challenged in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 5323 of 2016, Sandeep Pandey Vs. Union of India and others. The matter was taken up before the Hon’ble High Court at Allahabad on 05.02.2016 before the bench consisting of Hon’ble Justice V.K. Shukla and Hon’ble Justice M.C. Tripathi. The Hon’ble Court under its order has asked the counsel appearing for IIT BHU to seek instructions in the matter as to how he defends the termination order and has posted the matter for hearing on 11.02.2016.
Now it is for the BOG, IIT BHU to defend its resolution, which has been passed, casting stigma and serious allegation of ‘anti-national’ on the petitioner, that too without providing any opportunity to the petitioner to respond or explain, merely taking cognizance of the letter of student of M.A. IInd year Political Science (who never attended the IIT classes), even without taking any pain to verify the correctness of the allegations leveled.
Rahul Mishra, Advocate has put in appearance as a counsel for petitioner Dr. Sandeep Pandey and Ajeet Kumar Singh has put in appearance for IIT BHU.
For more information please contact Sandeep Pandey at 0522 2347365, ashaashram@yahoo.com and Advocate Rahul Mishra at 9415363281.
