Such were the diverse and strange topics that the sleuths of the CID were left dumbfound and also in good humour as they slogged to note down all the 4000 topics into their files the whole day.
As the skeletons, literally, continued to tumble out of the closet the entire day, some from the Chancellor’s (CM Jha) now sealed office and others from the security room, a not so amused State Government issued a dissolution notice to the University.
“We have served a show cause notice to the University asking it why it shouldn’t be closed,” Education Minister, RC Laloo said after a Cabinet meeting. The University is yet to reply to the notice, Laloo said.
Meanwhile, the seizure at the University’s Laitumkhrah campus today is just the tip of the iceberg, the CID sleuths said, as there are another 6000 such theses that have been found at the University’s Jorabat campus, vindicating former Governor RS Mooshahary’s claim that the University was functioning flouting all norms.
The seizure is also significant, not because of the subjects, but also in terms the market value of the theses. It comes to a whooping Rs. 127 crore. “To get a PhD degree the University charged Rs 1.27 lakh, so these 10,000 odd theses would cost about Rs. 127 crore,” a CID official conducting the raid and investigating the case said.
The investigating team also said that the theses seem to have all been printed in Kolkata as they bore tell-tell signs of it and the officials believe that the University did everything from printing to making the theses material to award of the degrees to those who sought such degrees across India and abroad.
“We have to investigate who ordered these theses to be printed at this printing press in Kolkata,” this is clear case of a bigger scam an official said while showing a thesis titled: Corruption in India – hurdles and remedies by one S VenkataLakshmi and submitted vaguely to faculty of Public Administration.
There were other bizarre copies of thesis with the hardcover tilled “Role of ICICI bank in housing finance – a case study NCR by one Sheikh Rafik Afsar, while the inside page was titled “A study of emotional intelligence and self concept of Kho Kho players and non Kho Kho players,” by one Amit Naru. Naru’s papers were supervised by Anurag Agnhotri, Assistant professor, CVS College, Delhi University.
These seizures followed after Jha the Chancellor of the University got a temporary relief from the Supreme Court in his anticipatory bail application where the apex Court held that he would get bail till the next hearing on the case. The order was passed last Friday.
The CMJ University as well as the Chancellor’s office has remained sealed for the past two odd months. In the first raid, nothing credible was found to substantiate the allegations leveled by Mooshahary against the CMJ University. The computers with the vital data were found damaged before the CID could conduct raids. (Eom)
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