Probe religious discrimination in AMU: Ex-VC of Urdu university

NEW DELHI: The erstwhile chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Firoz Bakht Ahmed has written to Union acquisition curate Dharmendra Pradhan, alleging spiritual discrimination, administrative apathy and organization nonaccomplishment astatine Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and seeking an autarkic cardinal probe into the matter. In his letter, Ahmed flagged the lawsuit of Rachana Kaushal, a widowed prof of governmental subject astatine AMU, who has allegedly faced harassment and favoritism implicit the past decennary connected spiritual grounds. Ahmed said Kaushal, who has been serving successful AMU since 1998, has repeatedly approached the VC since Sept past year, but nary meaningful enactment has been taken connected her complaint. Kaushal said, "The chairperson and the dean person been harassing maine for the past fewer years, which I initially ignored.

However, the harassment reached a constituent wherever I was compelled to attack the VC... my promotion was stalled successful 2017. I was promoted lone aft an HC directive." She added: "At the time, a run was organised against me, and I person audio recordings wherein the contented was communalised with claims that I had said I was denied promotion due to the fact that I americium Hindu. I ne'er mentioned my religion successful immoderate of my representations oregon successful my tribunal petition..."