India, Dec. 25 -- A faculty member of the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has been suspended, with an inquiry committee formed on Tuesday to look into a "provocative" exam question set by the professor.

The question had been included in the first semester examination paper for the Department of Social Work, an official aware of the matter told HT.

Following this, the professor responsible for the setting of the question paper was placed under suspension pending the inquiry, the official said, according to an earlier HT report.

The question, which led to the suspension of the professor, had appeared in the BA (Hons) Social Work exam on Social Problems in India.

"The question dealt with atrocities against a particular community," ...