Acting Aligarh Muslim University vice-chancellor’s wife again on VC candidate list

AGRA: A special meeting of Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) court on Monday recommended a panel of three candidates, including the officiating vice-chancellor’s (VC) wife, to the President for appointment as the next VC.

This follows a recent row over the selection process. A panel headed by AMU’s officiating VC Mohammad Gulrez “picked” his wife Naima Khatoon Gulrez, raising questions of “propriety and conflict of interest”. If appointed, Khatoon will be AMU’s first woman VC.

Besides Khatoon, a professor of psychology at AMU and principal of AMU women’s college, the other two were Prof Muzaffar Uruj Rabbani, former dean, faculty of medicine, AMU, and Prof Faizan Mustafa, VC, Chanakya National Law University, Patna, and professor at law department, AMU.