Aligarh, Aug 30 (ZEENEWS.COM) The Aligarh Muslim University was on Tuesday embroiled in a fresh controversy with a former girl student threatening to begin an indefinite strike from August 31 to protest its "indifferent" response to her complaint about alleged sexual harassment by a senior teacher.

Asma Javed, who failed to get admission to the PHD course this year, has written to the National Commission for Women (NCW) alleging she received death threats from some unidentified persons who were pressuring her to withdraw her charge of alleged "mental and sexual harassment" against Mohammed Shareef, a teacher in the Sanskrit department.

The university denied Javed's allegations, with officials saying she was trying to "politicise the issue to get media attention". The teacher against whom Javed has complained has been suspended, they said.

Javed's accusations came six months after the AMU was embroiled in a controversy over allegations by a 21-year-old student, Farah Khanum, that she was threatened on the campus for wearing t-shirts and jeans.

AMU's women cell is currently probing two cases of alleged sexual harassment -- one involving Javed and another in which a foreign student has accused a senior teacher of the law department of making "indecent sexual advances" against her.

Javed told reporters she was compelled to approach the NCW because she feared the women's cell was trying to "whitewash" the matter and give a clean chit to the teacher.

She alleged senior AMU officials had tried to "browbeat" her into withdrawing her complaint.