India, Aug. 15 -- Jason Arday, the sociologist who resigned from the University of Cambridge last week due to weeks of plagiarism allegations and intense media scrutiny, was found dead on Friday, Aug 14.

Arday, 41, became Cambridge's youngest Black professor in 2023, at age 37. He was found unresponsive at a home in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, according to the Times, the Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News.

His family, in a statement issued through his publisher Simon & Schuster UK, said they were "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son." They said the "campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason, who was a gentle man and who always wanted to see the best in everyone," adding he ha...