Senior Karnataka government officer Prathima KS, who was murdered at her home in Bengaluru over the weekend, was known to colleagues as "brave and dynamic", and had recently received a promotion.
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Officials in the higher education department note that this contradicts the earlier decision to appoint bureaucrats. Recently, Kuvempu University in Shivamogga experienced a flip-flop when the government initially appointed a KAS officer as registrar, but within nine days, the order was revised, and a professor was appointed instead. Sources suggest that similar changes might occur in other universities with vacant posts.