Rohtak, March 14 -- The Union ministry of education on Thursday asked the Board of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak to either suspend institute director Dheeraj Sharma or send him on leave till the completion of probe against him over alleged misappropriation of funds. The ministry directive also instructs him to stay away from all the campuses and rented areas of IIM-Rohtak, until further orders.

The Centre had on March 5 ordered a probe into the allegations against Dr Sharma.

In a letter to Jai Dev Shroff, chairman of the board, IIM Rohtak, Sunil Kumar Biswas, deputy secretary to Union government (ministry of education), has directed that the board of IIM, Rohtak, defer all items, barring the convocation and award of degre...