The Supreme Court on November 30 (Thursday) quashed the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as Vice-Chancellor of Kannur University.
Serving a blow to the Kerala government, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, in a judgment, has set aside a decision of the Kerala High Court which had upheld the validity of a November 23, 2021 notification reappointing Mr. Ravindran.
The judgment, authored by Justice J.B. Pardiwala for the Bench, accused the Kerala government of “unwarranted interference” in the reappointment and the resultant abdication/surrender of his statutory powers by the Chancellor/Governor.
