Warrants issued against MDU professor

Times of India: Chandigarh: Thursday, 24 September 2015.

Haryana State Information Commission has issued bailable warrants against the head of the law department of Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU) in Rohtak for not complying with its directions.

Information commissioner Hemant Atri on Tuesday ordered the Rohtak superintendent of police to ensure compliance of the panel's orders in connection with service of warrants to Professor Badruddin, head of law department and public information officer (PIO) of the university.

During the last hearing of the case, the commission had asked the PIO to remain present before the commission on September 22. But he failed to attend the hearing claiming to be busy due to exigency of work and a meeting for Tuesday. However, the commission was of the view that he could have postponed/preponed the meeting to make it convenient to be personally appear before the panel.

The case pertains to an RTI application filed by a final year student of the law department Naresh Kumar, who has been fighting to get information related to entrance examination of PhD and LLB for the past many months. "When I filed applications, the university issued a notice against me. I also filed another RTI application to know the charges against me," Kumar maintained.