Expelled PU professor cries foul

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 24

After Panjab University expelled him for being found guilty in a sexual harassment case for the fourth time, Assistant Professor Komal Singh has cried foul. Komal Singh was dismissed from service by the Syndicate in 

its last meeting after the PU CASH had found  him guilty. However, Singh has claimed that he has been setup by colleagues as he is from the reserved category.

Singh had written a letter to the PU Chancellor saying that the allegations made against him are baseless. He has claimed that his colleagues in the Public Administrative Department have wrongly implicated him because he was employed in the reserved category. The matter is to be taken up in the Syndicate meeting tomorrow.

Singh claimed that he was a married man, and that even after separation from his wife, he was waiting for her. He said he had two children and respected women. Singh has also written that he had taken girl students to many educational trips in the past and no such case came to light then. Thus, it is s ploy of his colleagues who wanted to vacate his post.

The assistant professor has demanded that a high-level committee, comprising member of UGC, be set up to look into the matter. He also said he had asked the PU CASH to mark a judicial inquiry into the matter but his plea was not considered.

A postgraduate student had alleged in September, 2015, that Singh had indulged in ‘sexual talks’ with her. She appeared before the PU CASH and narrated the incident. Before that she had also complained to the Chairperson of the department. Singh had then tendered an apology before the Chairperson. Singh had resigned from the post of Chairperson of the department in an earlier case.