Unlike the three-member panel probing the undeserved admissions, however, this committee, comprising G N Shukla, Ajay Joshi and Ghanshyam Dalal, has recorded Patel's side of the story.

According to the report -- made available exclusively to Express Newsline -- the committee has found that the classes, which were run by the Indira Gandhi National Open University, and not Aptech as alleged, did not have the official, written permission of the MSU authorities.

The committee was appointed by the Syndicate in October following allegations of students of the faculty's evening course in Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management that the classes were being held without the official permission of the faculty authorities and that Aptech, a computer institute, was taking advantage of the administration's ignorance.

Under the rules, the university is supposed to be paid Rs 300 per hour for private classes conducted in the campus. But MSU received no money whatsoever from the authorities of these classes.

The committee was also asked to sort out the confusion over whether the classes were conducted by IGNOU or Aptech. According to Youth Congress vice-president Naval Bajaj, who raised the matter before the Syndicate, officials connected with the classes claimed to be with IGNOU. But Bajaj alleged that they were actually with Aptech.

As per the findings of the committee, the classes had been given the go-ahead by Patel. Patel, in his deposition, admitted that the permission was verbal and not written. The former dean also reportedly claimed that the classes in question were conducted by IGNOU and not Aptech.

The committee report, though ready, is yet to be submitted to the university administration as it requires one more signature. It is scheduled to be submitted on Wednesday. Patel, being away in Gandhinagar, was not available for his comments.

The committee's findings, as well as the actions likely to be taken, will come up for discussion at the Syndicate meeting scheduled to be held by the end of the months.