Selecting VC Panel
HC refuses to hear prayer
A High Court bench yesterday refused to hear a writ petition that sought an order for holding a senate session of Dhaka University immediately to select a panel for the post of its vice chancellor (VC).
Prof Wahiduzzaman Chan, general secretary of Dhaka University Teachers' Association, yesterday filed the petition, saying that Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique was appointed DU VC on January 15, 2009 to temporarily conduct its academic and administrative tasks. Prof Arefin was given the charge, under Section 11 (2) of Dhaka University Ordinance 1973, until a VC is appointed from a panel of three selected by the university senate, he said. But the VC did not invite any session of DU senate till date to select the panel, he added.
Tenures of most DU senate members will expire in June this year, the senate will be ineffective and the present VC will be able to hold the office for a long time, he said.
After a brief hearing, the HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim returned the petition to the petitioner, saying that they will not accept it due to “one of their (judge's) personal difficulties”.
The bench, however, told Manzill Murshid, the petitioner's counsel, that they can move the petition before another HC bench.
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