New Delhi: In a prompt response, Union minister Smriti Irani has requested Delhi University (DU) to reinstate five officials suspended for leaking her documents amid a controversy over her educational qualification.
“Since DU is an autonomous institution I have put forth my personal appeal to the VC to reinstate the officials (sic), she posted on Twitter today. “In public life one should be open to scrutiny and criticism. So am I,” she added.
Confirming the suspension on Friday, a senior DU official said, “Five of the non-teaching staff of the school of open learning have been suspended for accessing the confidential file and then leaking it.”Â
The university reportedly took action after a Hindi daily published the leaked documents and claimed that Irani had taken admission in DU’s School of Open Learning last year, but had not appeared for her examination.
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