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Aligarh Muslim University professor Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, who was suspended after being allegedly caught having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller in his campus home, was found dead at his residence.Dr Siras, a reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, was served a memo on February 9 by the office of the AMU registrar, Dr V K Abdul Jalil, under rule 403-C of the statute of the university, after a prima facie case of 'gross misconduct' was made out against him.
On February 19, AMU vice chancellor P K Abdul Azis suspended Sirasi and asked him to vacate the varsity premises.
However, on April 1, the Allahabad High Court had stayed his suspension.