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IIT-Kharagpur professor behind fake institute gets full November salary

NEW DELHI: The police has arrested A K Ghosh, the suspended professor of aerospace of IIT-Kharagpur, on Monday night. J Chattoraj, in-charge of Hijli Top police station on the campus, confirmed the arrest to TOI. However, Ghosh's son Abhishek refused to confirm or deny the arrest. "Due to our continuous raid, Ghosh had to surrender on Monday night," Chattoraj said. But suspension has meant little to Ghosh. The IIT-Kharagpur administration has paid him full salary for November despite clear rules that salary is halved during suspension. Meanwhile, the HRD ministry is in the process of finalising a three-member probe team, to look into the issue of running a fake institute — Institution of Electrical Engineers (I) — on the IIT-Kharagpur campus. But the probe is not going to be limited to the role of only Ghosh. It will also look into how other faculty members and former directors were involved with IEE(I). Ghosh has repeatedly maintained to the ToI that the institute was running for many years prior to his taking over as its president in 2006. However, within IIT-Kharagpur many faculty members are voicing concern that the HRD probe panel should not have members from the IIT fraternity due to obvious conflict of interest. "It should consist of eminent people from non-academic background. Only then an objective probe is possible," a source said. Sources claimed, the panel, which has to submit its report within four weeks, might call former IIT-Kharagpur directors — K L Chopra and S K Dube. TOI had reported about Chopra's letter to the fake institute. Though Chopra claimed that the letter is forged, Ghosh alleged that the former director was involved. In case of Dube, IEE(I) was allotted an official quarter as office during his tenure.

                                                                                                               
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