Rohtak, August 10: Commerce students of Maharshi Dayanand University are angry over the diktat by their head of department (HoD) against wearing jeans and tops. The students mostly girls accused the acting HoD, Mahender Singh Malik, of improper behaviour and using vulgar language in presence of girls.
The aggrieved students on Thursday submitted a written complaint to the vice-chancellor demanding action. Malik, clad in a kurta pyjama clarified that he just wanted students not to wear "obscene-looking dresses" and thus "advised them as a guardian".
He had taken over the charge of the department on Wednesday and reportedly directed students to wear a full-sleeved salwar kameej only. A student group said: "Immediately after taking over the charge, he started moral policing issuing verbal orders against wearing jeans, tops for girls and T-shirts for boys."
A second-year girl student alleged that as the chairman of admission committee, he refused to sign her admission form when she appeared before him wearing jeans and shirt on August 1 but admitted her the next day when she came dressed in salwar kameej. Another student said, "Last year, he kept on pressuring me on wardrobe and I had to complain to my parents. But he refused to listen to my parents."
In the written complaint signed by 94 students, they alleged: "He used vulgar language in front of girl students, smokes in the department in the presence of students and puts a lot of restrictions on girls."
"The vice-chancellor has assured the girls to look into the complaints and to take action in this regard," said registrar S P Vats, adding that there was no ban on wearing any kind of dress including jeans and tops in the university.
The registrar, however, clarified that some department like engineering, management and hotel management had a dress code.
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