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When she stopped going to his chamber, the professor allegedly threatened to sabotage her PhD thesis.The case was taken up by the SU sexual harassment committee after five-day Janmashtami break on September 6 with deposition of Panchal’s past students, other female students and staff members. However, the PhD student, who lodged complaint against Panchal, wants university to file the FIR against the professor first.The PhD student had registered complaint against Panchal on August 30, following which the SU authorities had recorded the professor’s statement the next day. The victim had alleged that Panchal used to call her to his chamber and make sexual advances at her. Rajkot: The Rajkot-based Saurashtra University (SU) on Friday suspended professor Nilesh Panchal of the bioscience department after its sexual harassment committee found him guilty of sexually harassing a 26-year-old female PhD student.The preliminary probe conducted by the committee also revealed that Panchal, who is in his late 40s, had allegedly sexually harassed another PhD student, who apparently left her doctorate course midway. One of them was daughter of Panchal’s relative, who completed the thesis..