The Supreme Court on Friday cautioned that it will step in to finalise the appointment of vice chancellors for two state-run technical universities in Kerala if Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Governor-cum-Chancellor Rajendra Arlekar fail to arrive at a consensus by December 9.

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and PB Varale was hearing the long-running dispute over the selection of vice chancellors for APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and the University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology.

The bench asked Attorney General R Venkataramani, appearing for the governor, and senior advocate Jaideep Gupta for the chief minister, to work out a solution acceptable to both.

Venkataramani told the court that the committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Sudhans

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