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Bangalore: While the bizarre incident of a professor’s murder in broad daylight by a group of students in Madhya Pradesh has shocked the nation, in Karnataka, a professor from the prestigious Bangalore University is being investigated on plagiarism charges.

The Director of correspondence courses at the University, Dr B C Myalarappa, was the guide for a thesis prepared by a PhD student Venkataramanappa.

When the matter came into limelight, Karnataka Governor T N Chaturvedi ordered an inquiry also seeking probe into the professor’s role in the incident.

“We came to know of it through the notification. As can be seen by the by it, he (Governor) has ordered an enquiry into charges of plagiarism against one Venkataramanappa,” says Registrar of Bangalore University, R M N Sahai.

The letter sent by the Governor office seeks inquiry into professor's role.

"Since I've joined the University, it's the first enquiry of its kind being ordered. The University is to act as a facilitator to the inquiry," Sahai says.

This is the third enquiry being ordered to check the veracity of the thesis and the incident surely speaks a lot for the quality of Bangalore University's PhD holders.

Earlier, the University is known to have produced PhD dissertations in subjects as trivial as 'Silk kurtas worn by Kannada poets' and 'Puliogare rice dish in south India.'