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Prayagraj: Allahabad University administration has issued a show-cause notice to the dean of law faculty on the charges of visiting the house of a faculty member during odd hours along with students and trying to pressurise the senior proessor for expediting the process of conducting the last semester exams.
The notice, served to Prof J S Singh on July 2, has been signed by the varisty’s registrar Prof N K Shukla (TOI is in possession of the copy of notice). Prof Singh has been given a week’s time to respond to the notice.
The notice mentions that, ‘It has come to the notice of the competent authority that you (Prof Singh) had gone to the house of a senior professor, who is neither from faculty of law nor controller of examinations, along with a group of students to pressurise him to expedite the conduction of last semester examinations of faculty of law during odd hours. It is neither desirable nor appropriate to visit the house of an unconcerned faculty member along with
Prayagraj: At a time when the city is witnessing record breaking surge in corona positive cases and more staff members, including both teaching and non-teaching, of Allahabad University are getting infected by Covid-19, the AU administration has decided to seal the entire premises till April 30.
Besides, all exams that were to be held through online mode from April 30, have been postponed till further notice.
On April 9th, AU Vice Chancellor had ordered closure of AU’s main campus and that of all the constituent colleges till April 20. Likewise, all the ongoing exams too were postponed by the varsity. However, last week the controller of examination, had announced that exams would be held from April 30 onwards through online mode.