India, Aug. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Monday stepped in to break the deadlock between the Kerala government and former governor Arif Mohammed Khan over the appointment of vice-chancellors, appointing former judge Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia as chairperson of the search-cum-selection committee for two universities - APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) and the University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology.

"We firmly believe that this impasse should be resolved at the earliest," noted a bench of justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan, while entrusting Justice Dhulia with the task of steering the process. He has been authorised to head a five-member committee, which may either be common to both universities or separat...