The education secretary, the University Grants Commission chairman, the ACC chairman, the Rajshahi University VC, registrar and Prof Sobhan have been given four weeks to respond to the rules. Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua, who stood for the petitioner, said in a Facebook post the court also stayed the university’s teacher recruitment guidelines of 2017 and ordered the ACC to report on Nov 14 after acting against Prof Sobhan. The education ministry launched an investigation after clashes over mass recruitments by Prof Sobhan on his last day in office that the government said were illegal. Police escorted him out of the campus to his home in the Rajshahi University Housing Society on May 6 amid clashes between groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League, teachers, employees and job candidates. Prof Sobhan, who had faced adversities during the 2007-08 caretaker government, became VC in 2009 after the Awami League came to power.

Source: bd News24 September 06, 2021 15:20 UTC