<p>“It is a conspiracy against me. I have not committed any crime. Registering a criminal case against me is simply academic terrorism,” Shaad Ramzan, a professor of Kashmirir language, told reporters here.<br /><br />Police in summer capital Srinagar had filed a first information report (FIR) against the university teacher Wednesday for setting the question paper which referred to a woman's breasts.<br /><br />“The question paper was set for graduate-level students of Kashmiri language. It contained an obscene text which the students were asked to translate from Urdu into Kashmiri,” Maqsood-ul-Zaman, superintendent of police (Hazratbal), said here.<br /><br />"It offends the sensibilities of students and society here," he said.<br /><br />But defending his right to set the question paper, Ramzan said: “I had taken the passage from a very famous Unani textbook. The book is a course for students studying the Unani system of medicine."<br /><br />“If the selected text is obscene, then the book should have been banned. Besides, zoology and human biology books taught to medical students must also be banned,” Ramzan said.<br /><br />The teacher said, "If we want Kashmiri to become a scientific language, then we need to incorporate medical science, biology etc into it."<br /><br />However, students here said it was a matter of concern that such a question were asked in an exam paper related to the literature of any language.<br /><br />“The question paper did not pertain to medicine, anatomy, physiology or any other bio-science. It pertained to a language that concerned its literature.<br /><br />“The controversial question could and should have been avoided,” said Sajad Ahmad, 25, a local student here.</p>.<p>Earlier this month, another local college teacher was booked for setting a question paper which contained controversial text that police said could fan separatist sentiments here.<br /></p>
<p>“It is a conspiracy against me. I have not committed any crime. Registering a criminal case against me is simply academic terrorism,” Shaad Ramzan, a professor of Kashmirir language, told reporters here.<br /><br />Police in summer capital Srinagar had filed a first information report (FIR) against the university teacher Wednesday for setting the question paper which referred to a woman's breasts.<br /><br />“The question paper was set for graduate-level students of Kashmiri language. It contained an obscene text which the students were asked to translate from Urdu into Kashmiri,” Maqsood-ul-Zaman, superintendent of police (Hazratbal), said here.<br /><br />"It offends the sensibilities of students and society here," he said.<br /><br />But defending his right to set the question paper, Ramzan said: “I had taken the passage from a very famous Unani textbook. The book is a course for students studying the Unani system of medicine."<br /><br />“If the selected text is obscene, then the book should have been banned. Besides, zoology and human biology books taught to medical students must also be banned,” Ramzan said.<br /><br />The teacher said, "If we want Kashmiri to become a scientific language, then we need to incorporate medical science, biology etc into it."<br /><br />However, students here said it was a matter of concern that such a question were asked in an exam paper related to the literature of any language.<br /><br />“The question paper did not pertain to medicine, anatomy, physiology or any other bio-science. It pertained to a language that concerned its literature.<br /><br />“The controversial question could and should have been avoided,” said Sajad Ahmad, 25, a local student here.</p>.<p>Earlier this month, another local college teacher was booked for setting a question paper which contained controversial text that police said could fan separatist sentiments here.<br /></p>