Himachal prof suspended, gets pre-arrest bail

The Himachal Pradesh government on Saturday suspended an assistant professor accused of sexually harassing a 19-year-old student of a government college in Dharamshala who died on December 26, even as termed the allegations against him “completely false” after securing anticipatory bail in the case.

- Shailee Dogra and Sanjay Maurya

The action came after chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu ordered the accused’s immediate suspension “Looking at the gravity of the allegations, I have directed that the assistant professor, whose name has been taken by the deceased girl in a video recorded before her death, be suspended immediately,” Sukhu said

According to the order issued by the state, the headquarters of the accused professor shall be at the Directorate of Higher Education, Shimla, and he shall not leave the headquarters without obtaining prior permission of the higher authorities during the period of suspension.