Certain irregularities and procedural lapses occurred at Anna University under Surappa: inquiry panel

Kalaiyarasan panel has completed probe and submitted a report, government tells Madras High Court.

The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday informed the Madras High Court that it had received a report from a Commission of Inquiry, constituted during the AIADMK government, to probe the charges of corruption, malpractice, financial irregularities and irregularities in appointments at Anna University when M.K. Surappa was the Vice-Chancellor.

Appearing before Justice V. Parthiban, Advocate-General R. Shunmugasundaram said the commission, headed by the retired High Court judge, P. Kalaiyarasan, had completed its probe and submitted a report. “Certain irregularities and procedural lapses have been found by the commission on the basis of evidence placed before it, and now the government has to act on it,” he said.

The submissions were made at the hearing of a petition filed by Mr. Surappa in February this year to quash a Government Order of November 11, 2020, constituting the commission. Subsequently, he demitted office on April 11 this year on completion of his three-year tenure, but the commission continued its inquiry.