A female student from Sher e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST) Wadoora Sopore campus alleged that she was sexually harassed a her professor.
Sources told The Kashmiriyat that scores of students on Friday staged a protest inside the university campus demanding a stringent punishment to the faculty member.
The university has launched a probe into the incident and has removed the professor from the post of the coordinator.
“Till pending enquiry into the matter, Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, coordinator RAWE programme, is hereby removed from the said assignment with immediate effect and the charge of coordinator RAWE shall remain under me, ” An official order of Dean Faculty, Agriculture accessed by The Kashmiriyat read.
The incident comes days after a female student in Sopore town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district accused a college professor of sexually harassing her.
Salma Ahad, principal of government degree college Sopore said that the student had Thursday lodged a complaint against a college professor for sexually harassing her.
She said a 15-member committee has been constituted to probe the allegations of the female students so that true shall come to fore.