Setback for Kerela CM Pinarayi Vijayan as Kerala High Court (HC)

KOCHI: Rebutting arguments of Priya Varghese, the wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Secretary K.K. Ragesh, the Kerala High Court on Thursday ruled that she had no qualifications to be considered for the post of Associate Professor in the Malayalam Department of Kannur University. It pointed out that the scrutiny committee failed in finding out that she did not have the required qualifications.

Noting that all the UGC guidelines were flouted and the court cannot overlook it, the court asked the Kannur University to revisit the rank list and come out with a new one.

Ragesh is a former Rajya Sabha member of the CPI-M, who hails from Kannur and considered a close aide of Vijayan.

For the past two days, a bench of Justice Devan Ramachandran was looking into the petition of second-ranked candidate Jacob Skariah. (IANS)

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