By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two days after she hit the headlines by getting her marriage re-registered underneath the Special Marriage Act to beat the ‘discrimination’ towards girls within the matter of inheritance in Sharia regulation, Sheena Shukkur finds herself within the midst of an argument over plagiarism in her PhD thesis.
Sheena is the Kannur University Law Department head and former MG University pro-vice-chancellor.
The Save University Campaign Committee (SUCC), a whistleblower’s group, has approached Governor Arif Mohammed Khan with a petition that Sheena’s PhD thesis on ‘Scope and Application of Muslim Family Law in Kerala and Lakshadweep’ is nothing however a “bundle of plagiarised chapters from a variety of sources”. The PhD diploma was awarded by The Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University in 2009.
Using plagiarism-detecting software program, the SUCC contented that Sheena had “copied most of the text and even the conclusions section as such from other sources and submitted it as her own research findings”. It additionally alleged that the UGC norm that solely a PhD diploma holder can turn out to be the analysis information was flouted within the case of Sheena’s doctoral thesis.
The SUCC, within the petition, mentioned Sheena had spent solely about 10 months for her PhD diploma on the Ambedkar Law University, Tamil Nadu, after her registration, that too underneath part-time mode and likewise spent a bit multiple 12 months on the Amity University, UP, previous to that. “This, coupled with the level of plagiarism in her thesis point to grave academic misconduct. All these demands a detailed inquiry into the matter,” the petition mentioned.
Allegations towards Sheena’s PhD thesis had first emerged in 2015 when she was serving as Pro-VC of MG University. Based on the then Governor P Sathasivam’s instructions, the varsity had performed an inquiry into the complaints.
However, the result of the probe remained unknown. Sheena selected to not react to the recent prices towards her PhD thesis. “I have nothing to say on the matter. Let them raise whatever allegation they want to raise,” Sheena informed TNIE when her response was sought on the SUCC petition.
Meanwhile, the timing of the petition has raised eyebrows, with prices that it was prompted after Sheena, as soon as a staunch Muslim League supporter, began drifting in direction of the Left camp.
Sheena’s act of difficult the ‘discriminatory’ features in Sharia regulation had additionally irked hardliners.
However, R S Sasikumar, chairman of the SUCC, refuted the cost that the petition earlier than the governor was politically motivated and had something to do with non-academic issues.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two days after she hit the headlines by getting her marriage re-registered underneath the Special Marriage Act to beat the ‘discrimination’ towards girls within the matter of inheritance in Sharia regulation, Sheena Shukkur finds herself within the midst of an argument over plagiarism in her PhD thesis.
Sheena is the Kannur University Law Department head and former MG University pro-vice-chancellor.
The Save University Campaign Committee (SUCC), a whistleblower’s group, has approached Governor Arif Mohammed Khan with a petition that Sheena’s PhD thesis on ‘Scope and Application of Muslim Family Law in Kerala and Lakshadweep’ is nothing however a “bundle of plagiarised chapters from a variety of sources”. The PhD diploma was awarded by The Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University in 2009.
Using plagiarism-detecting software program, the SUCC contented that Sheena had “copied most of the text and even the conclusions section as such from other sources and submitted it as her own research findings”. It additionally alleged that the UGC norm that solely a PhD diploma holder can turn out to be the analysis information was flouted within the case of Sheena’s doctoral thesis.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The SUCC, within the petition, mentioned Sheena had spent solely about 10 months for her PhD diploma on the Ambedkar Law University, Tamil Nadu, after her registration, that too underneath part-time mode and likewise spent a bit multiple 12 months on the Amity University, UP, previous to that. “This, coupled with the level of plagiarism in her thesis point to grave academic misconduct. All these demands a detailed inquiry into the matter,” the petition mentioned.
Allegations towards Sheena’s PhD thesis had first emerged in 2015 when she was serving as Pro-VC of MG University. Based on the then Governor P Sathasivam’s instructions, the varsity had performed an inquiry into the complaints.
However, the result of the probe remained unknown. Sheena selected to not react to the recent prices towards her PhD thesis. “I have nothing to say on the matter. Let them raise whatever allegation they want to raise,” Sheena informed TNIE when her response was sought on the SUCC petition.
Meanwhile, the timing of the petition has raised eyebrows, with prices that it was prompted after Sheena, as soon as a staunch Muslim League supporter, began drifting in direction of the Left camp.
Sheena’s act of difficult the ‘discriminatory’ features in Sharia regulation had additionally irked hardliners.
However, R S Sasikumar, chairman of the SUCC, refuted the cost that the petition earlier than the governor was politically motivated and had something to do with non-academic issues.
