Threatened OU professors seek SHRC help
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The stalemate over PhD admissions continued to rattle Osmania University with teachers approaching the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) against some students on Thursday.
The Osmania University Teachers’ Association (OUTA) filed a petition appealing to the SHRC to intervene in the issue and restore normalcy inside the campus. The petitioners said that agroup of students led by V Srinivas had attacked journalism professor K Narender on December 17 inside the VC’s chamber. When OU professors were taking out a rally on December 18, they were roughed up by the same group of students, the petitioners added.
According to them, the professors have been terrorised and threatened by the students for admission into PhD course. Threatening calls to the concerned professors in the middle of the night have also become common, they said. Admitting the case, the commission has directed the city commissioner of police and registrar of OU to submit a report on this issue by December 26.
Meanwhile, neither the administrative heads nor the students involved in the issue budged from their stand. While the teachers said that unless their demands were met by the VC, which includes making the Ph D process transparent and protecting teachers from such incidents, they would not take back their resignations, students wanted action against some teachers.
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