Chennai: SRM University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, suspended an assistant professor for her critical social media posts on Operation Sindoor, via which India targeted terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, India Today reported.
Following the Indian attack on Pakistan, the professor wrote on her WhatsApp status, “India killed a child in Pakistan and wounded two people in the early Wednesday strikes. Killing innocent lives for your own bloodlust and election stunts is not bravery, and it is not justice. It is a cowardly attack.”
She quoted Pakistan authorities saying that the Indian attack killed 26 civilians, including women and children, while injuring 46 others.
She wrote in a following post that escalation between the countries might lead to economic shutdown, food shortage and loss of life for the next decade. After this, the university suspended her via an order which cited “unethical activities”. The university also announced that an inquiry has been initiated over the woman professor’s conduct.
The professor has been a faculty member in the institution since 2012, and now her faculty profile has been removed from the institute’s official website after her suspension.
However, the university has not cited social media posts as the reason for the suspension of the professor. SRM Group of Institutions is owned by TR Paarivendhar, founder of the Indiya Jananayaka Katchi (IJK), a political party that contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the BJP.
Days ago, the Uttar Pradesh government school suspended a primary class teacher for sharing her views on the Pahalgam terror attack on Facebook. The teacher, identified as Zeba Afroz, had written a post against the Sangh Parivar, which must have irked the BJP dispensation in Uttar Pradesh, prompting her suspension order, The Observer Post.