Chandigarh, April 24 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed a petition challenging 2017 appointment of Dheeraj Sharma, director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak.

The high court bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari also set aside a show-cause notice issued to him over alleged concealment of academic qualifications, served upon him by the Centre in 2022.

Dheeraj Sharma was appointed in 2017. His first term as the IIM-Rohtak director came to an end on February 9, 2022, and in the same year, he got a second term on February 28. The petition challenging his appointment was filed by one Amitava Chaudhary and others, in 2019 seeking quashing of his appointment.

The court said that petitioners who filed plea against S...