KOCHI: The syndicate sub-committee of Sree Shankaracharya Sanskrit University has started an investigation into the complaint that Chamacha K Vidya got admission for PhD by subverting the fake work experience certificate. The first meeting of the sub-committee was convened for files related to admission in 2019.

The sub-committee of the legal department chaired by K Premkumar MLA convened on the instructions of Higher Education Minister R Bindu and Vice-Chancellor Prof MV Narayanan.

Information will be gathered from those who handled the admission process and from Vice Chancellor Dharmaraj Adat and others. The main probe is to check whether Vidya gained admission by subverting the reservation rules.

Convenor K Premkumar, members Dr CM Manojkumar, Dr R Sivadasan and Prof D Salimkumar participated in the sitting.