Judicial officer takes over NLUJAA interim VC chair pending JS Patil cases

Wednesday, 5 August 2020 By Legally India Law schools

Following NLUJAA Guwahati vice chancellor (VC) Prof JS Patil’s temporary stepping down that we had first reported on 26 July, a new interim VC has been appointed, as first reported by LiveLaw yesterday.

According to an email sent out by the registrar within the university yesterday, judicial officer and director of the Judicial Academy Assam (JAA), Aparna Ajitsaria, has taken over the post from Monday, 3 August:

This is for the information of all concern that Smt Aparna Ajitsaria, AJS has taken charge as Vice- Chancellor in-charge of National Law University and Judicial Academy on 3rd August 2020 (forenoon).

She is a member of the Assam Judicial Service (AJS) and has been director of the JAA and North Eastern Judicial Officers’ Training Institute, which holds training programmes and other events for the state’s judges, since September 2018.

Her predecessor VC, Patil, had decided to go on leave after retracting earlier statements made that he had had the support of the university’s chancellor and the state’s chief justice, Ajai Lamba, over fighting with an FIR against sexual harassment allegations made and a criminal case filed against him by neighbours.

Patil had also said that prior complaints by NLUJAA faculty members against him for allegedly using sexist language, had been motivated.

The faculty members then responded with a press release, alleging that he had defamed them with his statement.

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Comments

Guest 5 Aug 2020, 16:32
+0 -10
How can a mere judicial officer take charge? At least a retired HC judge should have been appointed.
Guest 5 Aug 2020, 17:17
+7 -2
Because clearly people like Patil are of a calibre so much better than ordinary judicial officers!
A mere Citizen 5 Aug 2020, 19:33
+9 -0
A mere Judicial officer???Your choice of words indicate that you must be a very learned individual!!!
Outsider 6 Aug 2020, 03:51
+0 -6
You are right. Either a retired High Court judge or a retired or working law professor ( eligible to become Vice Chancellor) should have been made officiating VC. I prefer a Professor.
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 04:46
+1 -1
Who can then pull the same stunt as Patil did?
arre bhayya 6 Aug 2020, 04:42
+8 -0
the last time a retired HC took charge of a law school (NUJS), he almost wiped out everything that was there. Theres nothing special about them.
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 05:17
+7 -0
Judges are overrated. Just look at the current bunch at the SC.
Guest 9 Nov 2020, 08:41
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The mere Judicial Officer you are talking about has been the Director of Judicial Academy, Assam.. I'm sure a person who has been at the helm of affairs in a judicial academy is quite qualified to be the VC of a few hundred Under grads.
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 06:50
+3 -0
Safest to appoint a woman. No chance of lewd conduct and exposure.
Guest 6 Aug 2020, 08:52
+2 -0
No safeguard against lewd conduct. They can demand that others expose.
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