New Delhi: Four hundred academics, based in 160 countries, have expressed their solidarity with Subrahmanyam Saderla, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for the “caste-discrimination and institutional harassment” he has faced. On March 14, IIT Kanpur said it may revoke Saderla’s PhD on ground of ‘plagiarism’. The university’s Senate recommended the revocation even though the Academic Ethics Cell had found “no reason to revoke the thesis”.

400 Academics Condemn 'Caste Discrimination, Institutional Harassment' in IIT Kanpur