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Prof Chander Shekhar’s suicide snowballs into big issue
9/11/2022 11:51:26 PM

Early Times Report

Jammu, Sept 11: Notwithstanding the decision of the police to constitute the Special Investigation Team (SIT) the alleged suicide of a Jammu University professor is likely to snowball into a big issue in the Union Territory as some organizations of “weaker sections” jumped into the matter as the deceased teacher of Psychology was a Dalit.
After Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) organized a protest against the suicide of the professor, all India Confederation of SC/ST/OBC Organisations on Sunday rejected Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by Jammu and Kashmir Police to investigate the case.
“We will not accept less than a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) because it is not a normal suicide case”, R K Kalsotra chairman of Confederation said. He alleged that the deceased was forced to commit suicide.
“We have already written a letter to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and demanded a CBI probe into the incident”, he said.
“The deceased professor was going to become Head of the Department (HoD) of the Psychology Department. We have apprehension that the entire case was manipulated and the deceased was falsely implicated so the truth can only be revealed through CBI probe”, he said.
While demanding a CBI probe into the case, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Sunday aired apprehension that the Jammu University authorities would temper the record to distort evidence.
BSP leader advocate Pawan Kundal demanded that before the case will be handed over to CBI, police must seize all records including minutes of the meetings of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH). Kundal demanded that the incumbent HoD of the Psychology Department should be suspended and her entry into the university should be banned till the completion of the inquiry.
Not only political and social organizations Jammu University Teachers Association (JUTA) and various student groups have also demanded a CBI probe.
“Although an SIT has been constituted by the Police, we will continue to raise our demand for a CBI probe”, Prof Pankaj Shrivastav president of JUTA said.
Earlier JUTA has demanded that proceedings of the CASH committee should be made public.
JU professor committed suicide on September 8 after being suspended on sexual harassment allegation.
As reported earlier, an Associate Professor of Jammu University died by hanging himself from a ceiling fan on the campus after he was suspended on the allegation of sexual harassment.
Identified as Chandra Shekhar, a native of Meerut of Uttar Pradesh, the deceased was an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Jammu University. He allegedly died by suicide in his room in the department.
The 45-year-old Associate Professor, Chandra Shekhar was a resident of Meerut and was working at Jammu University for many years. Chandra Shekhar lived with his wife and daughter in the Old University Campus located on Canal Road.
On September 1, some girl students of the Department had complained of sexual harassment against Chandra Shekhar. Due to this complaint, the internal committee of the University started a departmental inquiry against Chandra Shekhar and he was placed under suspension till the completion of the inquiry.
The Wife of the deceased professor alleged that allegations against his husband were false and he was implicated.
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