GUWAHATI, JANUARY 22 (NNN): Lewd email has shown the door for the vice chancellor of Arunachal Pradesh vice chancellor. President of India Pratibha Patil has accepted the resignation of the vice-chancellor of a Central university in Arunachal Pradesh after the latter was found guilty of sending obscene email to a female faculty member.
K.C. Belliappa had in a letter to the President on December 31 said he was quitting as vice-chancellor of the Itanagar-based Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU). The letter followed a report by a one-man fact-finding panel to the human resources ministry last month. According to RGU insiders, the email with ‘lewd and objectionable content’ was just one of the reasons why Belliappa had to go. He had been on a collision course with the varsity chancellor – Arunachal Pradesh governor J.J. Singh – as well the RGU students, teachers and non-teaching staff unions after joining in 2007.
“We are happy that a tainted person is no longer running our university, though some bureaucrats in the ministry were trying to hush up the report against Belliappa,” said RGU Students’ Union president Mohan Gyadi. “The government should now ensure that a person with impeccable integrity heads RGU.” Trouble on the RGU campus started after an associate professor had on April 3 last year filed an FIR against him, also alleging that someone had hacked her email account and sent “objectionable” messages to Belliappa and 20 others.
The Special Investigation Team of the state police subsequently arrested Belliappa, who said he had replied to the objectionable email the woman professor. The former VC shifted to Delhi after his release to escape the wrath of agitating students and teachers.
As the demand for Belliappa’s ouster reached a crescendo, President Patil issued a directive for setting up a probe panel headed by retired bureaucrat M.P. Bezbaruah. His report found Belliappa guilty of internet crime. RGU was set up in 1985 as a state university but was converted to a central university in April 2007.
K.C. Belliappa had in a letter to the President on December 31 said he was quitting as vice-chancellor of the Itanagar-based Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU). The letter followed a report by a one-man fact-finding panel to the human resources ministry last month. According to RGU insiders, the email with ‘lewd and objectionable content’ was just one of the reasons why Belliappa had to go. He had been on a collision course with the varsity chancellor – Arunachal Pradesh governor J.J. Singh – as well the RGU students, teachers and non-teaching staff unions after joining in 2007.
“We are happy that a tainted person is no longer running our university, though some bureaucrats in the ministry were trying to hush up the report against Belliappa,” said RGU Students’ Union president Mohan Gyadi. “The government should now ensure that a person with impeccable integrity heads RGU.” Trouble on the RGU campus started after an associate professor had on April 3 last year filed an FIR against him, also alleging that someone had hacked her email account and sent “objectionable” messages to Belliappa and 20 others.
The Special Investigation Team of the state police subsequently arrested Belliappa, who said he had replied to the objectionable email the woman professor. The former VC shifted to Delhi after his release to escape the wrath of agitating students and teachers.
As the demand for Belliappa’s ouster reached a crescendo, President Patil issued a directive for setting up a probe panel headed by retired bureaucrat M.P. Bezbaruah. His report found Belliappa guilty of internet crime. RGU was set up in 1985 as a state university but was converted to a central university in April 2007.
