vadodara there was a time when luminaries such as dr s radhakrishnan who went on to become indias president and scholars like kanhaiyalal munshi served as senate members at maharaj sayajirao university now things have come to such a pass that a senate member has been arrested for his role in the bogus admission scamthe arrest of kamlesh mehta a governmentnominated senate member is a blot on msus highest body mehta a clerk was twice appointed as senate member by the bjpruled state government in 2002 and 2007 a commerce graduate he was appointed a temporary clerk at the faculty of technology and engineering fte in the early 1990s and later got a transfer to ftes computer department after the l j parikh committee recommended that all temporary staff who had served the university for a longer duration should be made permanent mehta later got a permanent store keepers job at ftes workshop a post that ensured that he would not get transferred by that time he had started building his political career with the support of keshubhai lobby and was appointed as ward president of bjp in 1999 with his sister varsha vyas as state vicepresident of bjps mahila morcha mehta who was being promoted as the brahmin face in manjalpur was appointed by the government to the senate first in 2002 inside the campus mehta enjoyed the support of two former deans between june 2003 and january 2010 this store assistant was not only promoted as office superintendent but he even started acting as de facto dean having his say in almost all administrative matters of fte it was during the same period that mehta helped the son of a governmentappointed syndicate member and a bjp functionary get admission in degree engineering course through bsc route suggest sources interestingly he even became a student of bca programme to tout his knowledge as a computer operator although former msu vicechancellor k c upadhyaya thwarted mehtas attempts to be part of the computer committee mehta later managed it during the tenure of former msu vc manoj soni ironically the committee did not have head of computer department but a clerk as expert mehta would have even made it as a councilor in the city as his name was recommended as candidate during the recent civic body polls as gujarat chief minister narendra modi insisted that he did not want any syndicate or senate member of msu as candidate mehta lost this chance now with the court granting a police custody remand for his interrogation till monday mehtas job at msu might well be at stake as an employee gets automatically suspended if he is in police custody for 48 hours