“The State government continues to poke its nose in the affairs of the universities even though the court, a little less than a quarter-century ago, had clearly asked the government to forbear from such interference,” the High Court of Karnataka has observed.
A Division Bench comprising Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice P. Krishna Bhat made these observations while allowing a writ appeal filed by the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad.
The Bench also said that “the universities are not the notional extensions of the government departments, nor their vassals. They are autonomous bodies and therefore their autonomy should be respected.”
