An English language
professor at Government MAO College allegedly committed suicide after being
accused of harassment by one of his female students.
As per reports, Professor Afzal Mehmood took his life after his wife left him and the college administration did not issue a clearance certificate to him even after harassment allegations were proven false.
Afzal left a suicide note
in which he wrote that he had left the matter in the court of Allah and that he
did not want the police to investigate his death and bother anybody over it.
The professor reportedly died by consuming poison
After legal proceedings,
the police handed over the body to the deceased family without conducting a
postmortem.
A day before his death,
the professor had written a letter to his senior colleague, Dr. Aaliyah Rehman,
who was leading the committee that was inspecting the harassment charges.
In his letter to Dr. Aaliyah, he complained that he had not been informed of the decision made by the committee in writing, even though he had been innocent of the charge. Afzal also expressed that the matter had damaged his image.
As per reports, a female student initially complained that Prof Afzal used to stare at girls. The student changed her statement during the inquiry and said that the professor used to deduct students’ marks because of low attendance.
She revealed that after
completing the inquiry, the student wrote in the report that Prof Afzal is
innocent and false accusations were made against him. As a result, the report
recommended a warning to be issued against the student.
The student sent the
letter to the principal three months ago. In the next step, the principal had
to issue a clearance letter to Prof Afzal, in which it should be written that
he is innocent and the allegations against him were false.
MAO College Principal
Farhan Ibadat responded that Prof Afzal never came to him, otherwise, he would
have issued him the letter.
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