New Delhi, Aug. 6 -- Jason Arday, the former Cambridge University professor, is in the spotlight since controversy over his PhD dissertation emerged, accusing him to have lifted more than 100 passages. The 41-year-old, who became the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at the University of Cambridge is under scanner for allegedly fudging his resume and claiming that he held positions at three other universities.

Surrounded in allegations of extensive plagiarism in his doctoral thesis, Jason Arday is facing another storm tarnishing his image. Media reports suggest that Arday made bogus claims to work at three different academic institutions in his official biography at the University of Cambridge.

Moreover, Arday also claimed...