BAHAWALPUR: The inquiry report of a probe committee of the Higher Education Department (HED), south Punjab, rejected the reports of a scandal regarding Rahim Yar Khan sub-campus of the Islamia University (IUB) and recommended moving the investigating agencies to find the culprits behind `the propaganda`.

According to HED South Punjab secretary Dr Ehtesham Anwar Mahar, eight faculty members of IUB Rahim Yar Khan subcampus submitted an application, raising serious moral and other workrelated allegations against the additional director of campus and a professor.

According to the factfinding report of the inquiry committee, a message was also disseminated on a shady facebook page and a video was attached with it.

On receipt of the complaint and the facbeookpost, Mr Mahar constituted a three-member committee to probe the matter with Malik Attaul Haq, additional secretary HED South Punjab as its convener while Zubair Ahmed Ejaz, deputy secretary (HED) and Prof Amra Lone, the principal Government Graduate College for Women, RY Khan, as its members.

Mr Mahar told Dawn the committee visited the IUB Rahim Yar Khan sub-campusandheardandrecorded the statements of all concerned, including staff and students.

The committee in its findings held the post and video on social media as fake and rejected the allegations of eight faculty members. It also recommended that the agencies might be approached to findthe culpritsinvolvedin tarnishing the image of the university as well as defaming the teachers. Correspondent