Gujarat Confidential: WhatsApp ‘Status’

VK Shrivastava whitethorn person resigned from the station of Vice-Chancellor of MS University earlier successful January, pending a petition earlier the Gujarat High Court challenging his February 2022 assignment to the post, but controversies pertaining to him garbage to dice down. The petitioner of the HC PIL, Professor Satish Pathak, connected Thursday, raised questions implicit the alleged hold successful Shrivastava vacating the Dhanvantri Bungalow — the authoritative residence of the Vice-Chancellor– arsenic good arsenic his beingness successful authoritative WhatsApp groups of the University.

Pathak, who besides expressed a presumption that Shrivastava’s pictures should beryllium removed from assorted faculties, said, “We tin inactive see that helium is not vacating the bungalow until helium finds different spot to enactment but what is stopping him from voluntarily exiting the WhatsApp groups? It should person been the archetypal perfect enactment connected his part. What’s adjacent much astonishing is that adjacent aft his resignation the administrators of the WhatsApp groups are fearful and incapable to region him from the group.” On January 28, the Gujarat HC volition perceive the arguments implicit the question of whether Shrivastava tin beryllium permitted to usage the play of his assignment arsenic V-C for his aboriginal applications.