Jammu and Kashmir High Court Friday dismissed a petition filed by Kashmir University vice chancellor, Khurshid Iqbal Andrabi seeking five year’s term instead of three years.
The judgement was announced by Justice D.S Thakur in Jammu after he had reserved it in Srinagar on December 1, reports.
Prof Andrabi had approached the court through senior advocate Zaffar A Shah pleading that his term as vice-chancellor is for five years instead of erstwhile three years.
He appointed as the KU VC on 17th October 2014 for a period of three years, the government amended the Kashmir and Jammu Universities Act 1969, in 2015, substituting the words “three” by the words “five” for tenure of the vice-chancellor and clearly indicating that the amendments shall be applicable from the date they are published in the gazette notification. The gazette notification, after concurrence from the Governor NN Vohra, has been issued in 2015 itself.
His petition was based on the grounds that the state legislature on 20th April 2015 carried out amendment in Kashmir and Jammu Universities Act 1969 substituting tenure of Vice-Chancellor to be for five years.