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A non-bailable warrant was issued on Tuesday against 'chancellor' of CMJ University in Meghalaya. Chandra Mohan Jha has been absconding for the past two weeks. Following the issuance of the warrant by the chief judicial magistrate here, the Meghalaya Police have put an all-India alert for Jha.
Confirming this, B R Rana, IGP (CID), said the chief judicial magistrate also issued similar warrants against two others — M K Kaushal alias Manjit Kaur (director) and Juban Kharpuri (HR director and examination controller) of the university. Two other officials, registrar M K Deb and deputy registrar Premlal Rai, have been already taken into custody.
CMJ University has been in the news after Governor R S Mooshahary, in his capacity as Visitor of the university, termed its degrees as "illegal"and filed an FIR.
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Wednesday hinted that the government may ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the illegal functioning of the controversial CMJ University.
"FIRs have been filed in different cities of the country. We are looking if the case should be handed over to a central agency," Sangma told journalists after a cabinet meeting.
The Accra branch of the university has, in fact, been barred from recruiting students as it doesn't meet accredition norms.
The chief minister said the Mahatma Gandhi University has also been brought under the scanner of the Meghalaya Private Universities (Regulation of Establishment and Maintenance of Standards) Act, 2012.
He said that the education department has held several meetings after the CMJ fiasco arose, and added that additional rules would be introduced for running private universities in Meghalaya.
"In good faith, the universities were given permission to operate, but some seem to have taken this for a ride and this is distressing," Sangma added.
CMJ University, a private varsity in this mountainous state capital of Meghalaya, hit media headlines following Governor R.S. Mooshahary - who is also the visitor of the university - exposing various irregularities in its functioning.
The university has created a record of sorts by awarding Ph.D. degrees to 434 candidates in the 2012-13 academic year, and enrolled 490 students for the Ph.D. programme during 2012-2013, even as only 10 of its faculty members have doctorates.
Meghalaya's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the alleged lapses of CMJ University, unearthed a number of irregularities in the functioning of the university.
The CID has arrested the varsity's registrar, Mrinal Kanti Deb, and his deputy Premlal Rai, on charges of fraud and cheating.
A lower court in Meghalaya Monday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against CMJ University's chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha and his two associates, Manjeet Kaur and Juban Kharpuri, in connection with the alleged forgery and irregularities by the institution.
Jha has gone into hiding.
"We are coordinating with our counterpart in different States to bring back the accused (Jha)," Sangma said.