ST Faculty Member Suspended Without Inquiry at MNNIT amid Discrimination Complaint
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 26 September 2025 | The Telegraph
A Scheduled Tribe faculty member at a Centre-run institution in Allahabad has been suspended without an inquiry into allegations of misbehaviour.
M. Venkatesh Naik, who serves as an assistant professor in the electrical engineering department of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, was suspended on September 19, two days after 22 faculty members lodged a complaint of misbehaviour against him. Naik, who wasn’t allowed to defend himself, has been asked to stay put at the institute during suspension…