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Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) connected Tuesday suspended a prof for “setting a question connected atrocities against Muslims” successful the BA (Hons.) Social Work question paper, aft societal media users termed it “polarising and communal”.
Several JMI students demanded the revocation of the suspension, describing it arsenic an “assault connected world freedom”.
The question appeared successful the BA Social Work semester 1 exam connected December 21 successful the ‘Social Problems successful India’ paper. It read: “Discuss the atrocities against Muslims successful India giving suitable examples.”
The question was aboriginal shared connected societal media by immoderate users and was wide circulated.
A JMI order, signed by officiating Registrar C. A. Sheikh Safiullah, stated that the assemblage has taken a superior presumption of the “negligence and carelessness” connected the portion of the prof from the Department of Social Work, who had acceptable the paper.
The bid added that the prof had been placed nether suspension till further orders, and until an FIR is registered by the constabulary arsenic per the rules.
A root said the bid was revised by removing the FIR portion and shared with the professor.
However, assemblage officials refused to stock the updated order, stating that it was “confidential”.
The prof did not respond to requests for a comment.
A assemblage official, connected the information of anonymity, said, “The question was uploaded connected societal media, and it created a contention with societal media users saying that it is polarising and communal. The assemblage took enactment and has suspended the prof until the enquiry committee submits its report.”
Satyam Vats, a subordinate of the RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s JNU unit, said, “How tin a Central University inquire this question erstwhile Hindus are being massacred successful our neighbourhood each day?”
However, the Fraternity Movement, a pupil organisation, said it supports the professor. “We basal firmly with the prof and his courageous refusal to bow to the Hindutva fascist nexus that continues to seep into world spaces. Jamia has agelong been a tract of captious thought, debate, and dissent, and it indispensable stay so.”
