Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) students union on Tuesday staged a protest seeking the immediate arrest and dismissal of an assistant professor of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) medical college for allegedly ''insulting'' Hindu deities during a classroom lecture.
The leader of the students' wing, Amit Goswami alleged that Dr. Jitendra Kumar of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College of the AMU had deliberately defamed religious sentiments.
Speaking on the same, Civil Lines Circle Officer of Police S Pandey asserted that a probe into the matter was underway and necessary action would be taken.
Earlier, AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor had earlier constituted a four-member committee to look into the matter.
Notably, the professor was earlier suspended after a video clip of his power-point class lecture, wherein, he had shown a slide show which gave a ''mythical reference of rape''.
Reportedly, he taught about rape in India and its historical and religious reference during one of his classes.
One of the slides during the lecture talked about the history of Brahma raping his daughter, Indra's impersonation of Rishi Gautam, and raping his wife, tulsi vivah: Lord vishnu raping the wife of king Jalandhar.
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