Mumbai: The Mumbai University’s management council, in a meeting held this week, decided not to seek a CID probe in the alleged BCom paper leak, days after the higher education minister, Chandrakant Patil, announced the decision in the Legislative Council. The council has, instead, decided to wait for the police investigation report in the matter, said sources. A university official clarified that it will be taken up in the next council meeting.A source privy to the discussion in the meeting said, “The govt’s letter was read out, stating that as an autonomous institution, the university’s management council is empowered to take a decision on the CID inquiry.” A source claimed that no explanation was given in the meeting as to why action was not taken against the head of the university’s Centre for Distance and Open Education (CDOE), who was in charge of the exams.A university official, however, said that the matter will be taken up in the next meeting of the council. Activists from the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest outside the vice-chancellor’s office on Wednesday seeking an immediate decision to conduct a CID inquiry and condemned the university’s alleged silence in the matter.Three B Com papers allegedly leaked in the university’s final exams in April this year. The leak reportedly originated from the university’s CDOE.
