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| AICTE chairman suspended over graft charges | | | Agencies
New Delhi: Facing graft charges, Chairman of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) R A Yadav was on Wednesday suspended by the government to ensure that the probe into the criminal offence lodged against him by the CBI is not influenced.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal took the step after Yadav, appointed as the chairman of the premier regulatory body in 2008, defied the Ministry's instruction to step down or go on leave in view of the inqury against him in the case filed by CBI early this month.
"Chairman of AICTE Prof. R A Yadav, who is under investigation for a criminal offence, has been placed under suspension today so that there is no possibility of investigation being influenced by his continuation in office," a statement issued by the ministry said.
Earlier, the ministry had asked Yadav to step down or go on leave so that investigation could be carried out in a fair manner.
"Yadav did not step down on his own nor did he go on leave. It was not appropriate on part of Yadav to continue in the post given the investigation against him. So he has been suspended," ministry sources said.
Yadav was, however, unavailable for comment.
The CBI on July 16 arrested AICTE member secretary K Narayan Rao besides registering corruption cases against Yadav, Regional Officer Sri Om Dalal, Deputy Director Robinder Randhawa and Advisor H C Rai.
"As Rao has been jail, he is deemed to have been suspended," the sources said. As per government rules, an official lodged in jail for more than two days is automatically considered as suspended.
Yadav had earlier served as the vice chairman of the organisation from 2005. The ministry has also suspended Dalal while it terminated the contract of Randhawa. Advisor Rai was repatriated to his parent cadre.
AICTE Vice Chairman S S Mantha has been given the additional charge of Chairman for a temporary period.
The AICTE has been asked to repatriate the officials who had come on deputation, the sources said.
Rao was arrested for allegedly accepting bribe for approving an engineering college in Hyderabad.
The ministry took the action after the CBI gave a detailed communication on the entire issue.
CBI has said that Dalal had demanded bribe for processing a case of increase in intake of seats of a Faridabad-based engineering college. The owner of the college had brought the matter to the knowledge of Yadav, Randhawa and Rai. However, no action was taken.
CBI registered a case against Yadav, Randhawa, Rai and Dalal under various sections of Prevention of Corruption Act.
The CBI has claimed to have recovered cash and property worth crores
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