THE FREETHINKER: A MUSLIM university in India is in deep trouble following the mysterious death of a professor it had sacked earlier this year because he was gay.
Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, 64, was sacked from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh (north India) after he was secretly filmed having consensual sex in the privacy of his home with a man described as a rickshaw puller.
Siras was found dead last week at his rented single-room accommodation, shortly after the Allahabad High Court had ordered his reinstatement. It is thought he may have committed suicide.
Originally from Nagpur, Siras had been a professor in the Department of Modern Indian Languages in Aligarh Muslim University for 22 years.
Students say that the popular professor never kept his sexual orientation a secret.
In February, after the Proctor of AMU received a tape showing Siras sex with another man, he was sacked without an inquiry.
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