The Calcutta High Court’s strong rebuke of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, with the judge saying that he should be removed for getting his own professor out of an international science project last year, has given fodder to his detractors who have long been baying for his blood.
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Professor Manas Maity, who teaches physics at the university, was part of the prestigious CERN project and had taken part in some protests that took place against the university administration. He paid a price for his criticism, with the V-C writing a letter to the Department of Science and Technology, asking for his removal him from the project.
