Kolkata: Seven former vice-chancellors of state universities sent a fresh legal notice to governor-chancellor C V Ananda Bose, each claiming a compensation of Rs 50 lakh, along with an unconditional apology on TV channels within seven days of receiving the notice, for making ‘defamatory accusations’ in Sept.
The former VCs are Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Mita Banerjee, Sadhan Chakraborti, Deb Kumar Mukherjee, Manas Sanyal, Santi Chhetry and Om Prakash Mishra.The ‘defamatory accusation’ mentioned in the legal notice referred to Bose’s video message in Bengali on Sep 7, when he had said “some of the vice-chancellors were corrupt, some vice-chancellors harassed girl students, some vice-chancellors played political games in the universities”.
The Educationists’ Forum on Tuesday said that the former VCs had again sent a notice to the chancellor for retraction, apology and damages. The legal notice asked Bose to treat “this as last and final notice and last opportunity to pay my clients aforementioned damages for smearing their reputation and sullying their good image...”. The former VCs had earlier issued a legal notice to Bose on Sep 14 for civil and criminal defamation.