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A Bench comprising Chief Justice S Manikumar and Justice Shaji P Chaly, however, did not issue notice to Ravindran.
The notice to the Chancellor, i.e. the Governor of the State, would be dispatched to the Raj Bhavan through a special messenger, the court said.
The appeal filed by Dr Premachandran Keezhoth, a member of the varsity’s Senate, would be heard after the Christmas vacation.
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It contended that since Ravindran was already over 60 years old, there was a statutory bar on him being appointed as VC.
Therefore, he could not have been appointed as VC of the varsity by terming it as a ”re-appointment”, the appeal contends.
The single judge, in his December 15 order, had said that re-appointment was different from appointment and the procedure adopted for the latter need not be followed when re-appointing someone.
The single judge had also held that for re-appointment age criteria would not be applicable.