A Maharaja’s College Arabic teacher, KM Nizamuddin, was transferred for misbehaving with students. He was shifted from Ernakulam to Thiruvananthapuram University College. The teacher was moved following a complaint by the students of the Arabic Department.
Female students complained that Nizamuddin abused and misbehaved with them. The teacher was transferred while the police investigation was in progress in this incident.
The students had earlier complained to the college principal that they were insulted in the classrooms and threatened over the phone. But when no action was taken, the students complained to the police. The students also released the audio recording of Nizamuddin allegedly using vulgar language.
Last month, the Maharaja’s College was shut down following an assault on Nizamuddin on the campus. As an Assistant Professor in the Research Department of Arabic, Nizamuddin filed a police report claiming that Mohammed Rashid had stabbed him with a knife.
According to the complainant, Rashid argued with him at the Department over the suspension of another student. In a fit of rage, the student stabbed him with a sharp object from behind. Police said the accused was absconding, and a manhunt was launched to capture Rashid.
Earlier this month, according to a Maharaja’s College order, Nizamuddin was removed from his position as staff adviser to the students’ union. Several students from the Department had raised serious allegations, including harassment by Nizamuddin.
Why is there no legal action against such teachers? Have government colleges in Kerala turned into madrassas?
In 2018, a Vanvasi student and SFI leader, Abhimanyu, was stabbed to death in the same college allegedly by activists of Campus Front of India (PFI’s student wing) terrorists. All former Maharaja College students now in prominent positions in the sociopolitical and cultural sphere have mentioned the campus’s decline in intellectual standards in common. They claim that the campus as it exists now is a ghost of what it once was.
