India, Jan. 4 -- Shimla/New Delhi

The Himachal Pradesh government on Saturday suspended an assistant professor accused of sexually harassing a 19-year-old student of a government college in Dharamshala who died on December 26, even as termed the allegations against him "completely false" after securing anticipatory bail in the case.

The action came after the chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu ordered the immediate suspension of the accused. "Looking at the gravity of the allegations, I have directed that the assistant professor, whose name has been taken by the deceased girl in a video recorded before her death, be suspended immediately," Sukhu told reporters.

According to the order issued by the state government, the headquarters o...