Vellore Institute of Technology: Plea filed in HC

A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court to restrain Vellore Institute of Technology from issuing certificates for students between 2010 to 2013, as they were admitted without following UGC rules.
Petitioner G V Sampath said he was son of the founder of the college and trustee and they started an off-campus centre of the college at Chennai in 2009.
In 2010, the UGC asked the college to submit a proposal for its new campus through Ministry of Human Resource Development.
It also said the college could not admit students at Chennai until the proposal was approved and formally notified in the gazette, he said.

The UGC, in 2010, reiterated its stand twice. The university gave an undertaking that it would amend its rules according to the 2010 UGC regulations and follow directions of the commissions regularly. However it admitted students for two consecutive years from 2010 to 2013 against the direction.
It was only in 2013 that the Union government issued a notification stating the off-campus centre would be a constituent unit of the university, he said.
As the orders were not retrospective, Sampath sought directions to restrain the university from issuing certificates to the two batches.
Additional Advocate General took notice for the Ministry and UGC and Justice B Rajendran allowed Sampath to serve notice to other respondents.