IIIT-A dismisses prof accused of sexual harassment

A year after he was accused of sexual harassment by a student, an associate professor has been sacked by IIIT-Allahabad as a probe panel found his response unsatisfactory.

"The decision, taken by the IIIT-A Board of Management, has been communicated to Associate Professor CVS Shiva Prasad by the institute's director Somnath Biswas vide letter dated May 28," the institute's spokesman Pankaj Mishra said.

The allegations were levelled by an M.Tech student in May last year who also later lodged an FIR at Dhoomanganj police station of the city. 

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