Arrested professor reveals more anomalies in BBAU

LUCKNOW: BBAU professor Vipin Saxena reportedly made startling revelations to the CBI’s anti-corruption wing about more financial anomalies in the university. The agency would quiz some more teachers and staff of the university after this.

Saxena, who along with his office assistant Vijay Dwivedi, was arrested on corruption charges by the CBI team on June 2, came out with these details while being quizzed during his threeday police custody remand since Tuesday.

A senior CBI official said Saxena, who was in-charge of Institute of Engineering and Technology of the university, had revealed major anomalies in recruitment of teachers as well as other administrative staff.

Saxena stated that most of the contractual recruitments and contract renewals were being done on the same pattern, he said, adding that interrogators had prepared a list of such recruitment processes that would be probed. The official said similar allegations were also made by a group of university students and the investigators were now planning to approach them. Moreover, some more teachers and staff of the university may be quizzed over the issue, he added.

Saxena was arrested on allegations of demanding bribe of ₹50,000 each for contract renewal of 28 teachers of the engineering college. The professor’s assistant was caught while accepting bribe on behalf of him from one of the contractual teachers. He was arrested when Dwivedi revealed his involvement. Unaccounted cash of ₹14 lakh was also found from his house during the CBI raid. The sleuths also seized several important documents related to different recruitment processes and a hard disc of his computer during the 12-hour search of his house.

VIPIN SAXENA WAS ARRESTED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES ON JUNE 2