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FALL OF A ‘VICE’ CHANCELLOR

It’s unusual for universities to be considered playgrounds of the power elite, but one vice-chancellor in Uttar Pradesh had managed to do exactly that in the past decade and a half. Vinay Kumar Pathak, 53, the V-C of the Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University in Kanpur, whose misdeeds are now under the scanner of the UP police, held the chair in different universities for almost 13 years.

The man himself has gone

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