Atrocity case: Chancellor 'hails' arrest order against Hyderabad Urdu varsity VC

Aslam Parvaiz, Firoz Bakht Ahmed

By A Representative
Following an arrest order against him, Dr Aslam Parvaiz, vice-chancellor Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, has been “absconding”, says a statement by Firoz Bakht Ahmed, MAANU chancellor At loggerheads with the university authorities for long, Ahmed has been accused of being a Narendra Modi plant in the minority institute.
The arrest order follows an associate professor belonging to the university’s Computer Science and Information Technology Department, Bonthu Kotaiah file an atrocity case against Parvaiz, Ahmed, who has complained against the university authorities, including Parvaiz, to the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, says.
Claiming that Parvaiz was running the university as his “private property”, Ahmed, in an email alert to Counterview, has hailed the arrest order by the police, which was followed by a lookout notice against Parvaiz, stating, “The arrest order by the Telangana police came after Raidurgam police filed an FIR on the complaint of Dr Bonthu Kotaiah, who is also the secretary of Maulana Azad National Urdu University Teachers’ Association), stating, he was subjected to ‘slurs and public humiliation with appalling, ‘eech jaat waley’ (low caste man)’.”
Claims Ahmed, “Numerous complaints have already amassed against Parvaiz, including sexual harassment of girl-students and ladies working in the campus by professors, irregularities in funding, nepotism, illegal appointments of near and dear ones, rustication, suspension and transfer of the ones calling a spade a spade…”

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