Even as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is scheduled to start investigating the sexual harassment charges against Prof P Vijayakumar from today, students of the School of Management and Labour Studies are already seeing the result of action initiated against him by the authorities.

With the new semester resuming after the Diwali break, the professor has not been assigned classes and has also been kept off fieldwork assignments, which was primarily his responsibility. More so, students who had chosen him as their research guide have been unofficially informed that they would have to look for someone else. Though the institute has not issued any official statement in this regard, sources revealed that Vijayakumar has been sent on leave until the investigation is completed.