NEW DELHI, January 17: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) was compelled to revamp the Anthropology syllabus for civil services examinations a few years ago after it was noticed that an unusually large number of students opting for the subject were making it to the coveted service.In a public interest litigation (PIL) filed in the Delhi High Court, advocate Dr Praveen Kumar Sharma has brought this to the court's notice, while accusing certain Delhi University Anthropology professors of conducting private coaching and conniving with IAS-coaching centres to leak papers.The petition came up before Justices Y.K. Sabharwal and K.S. Gupta on Friday and was posted for further hearing on March 14.Sharma in his petition had also maintained that the ambitious Special Assistance Programme (SAP) of the DU's Anthropology department, to make it an advanced centre of anthropological studies, had failed due to the professors' carelessness.A sum of Rs 65 lakh has been sunk in the programme since those associated with it were spending their time and energies in private coaching, the petition states. Professors who check the UPSC papers were doing so even after giving the mandatory undertaking to the UPSC that they were not teaching elsewhere, the petition alleges.Personal Point caseIn the Personal Point case, Shobha Kaul yesterday submitted that her relations with her husband Dr Sunil Kaul, who was allegedly bludgeoned to death in 1996, were not strained and there was no marital discord between them.During her cross-examination, she added that it was incorrect to say that her husband was frequently seen with actress Nafisa Ali. ``It is incorrect to suggest that after the death of Dr Kaul the share holding has been transferred into my name,'' she said.
