IIT-BHU Sacks Magsaysay Awardee Teacher for Being ‘Anti-National’

Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey, who has been sacked by the Banaras Hindu University on charges of being a “Naxalite”. (Photo: ANI screengrab)

Social activist and Magsaysay awardee Sandeep Pandey has been sacked by the Banaras Hindu University on charges of being a “Naxalite”, engaging in “anti-national” activities and screening a banned documentary on the campus.

Mr Pandey has taught at the prestigious central varsity for the past two-and-a-half years. He was a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering of IIT-BHU and his contract was to end in July this year.