Two of the faculty members have been demoted to lower positions. Muhammad Omar Faruq’s PhD degree was cancelled in 2018 following plagiarism charges but no academic action was taken against him then. Thursday’s syndicate body listened to the recommendation of the tribunal and demoted Faruq to Lecturer from Assistant Professor. In 2017, a spokesperson from the University of Chicago Press reportedly lodged the plagiarism allegations against Samia and Marjan in a letter sent to the authorities from Dhaka University. Samia, who is also the head of current affairs at a private television channel, said: “I was abroad when the article was published.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 28, 2021 16:41 UTC