NEW DELHI: Four professors of IIT-Kanpur have been found guilty of harassing a junior colleague belonging to scheduled caste community in violation of conduct rules under the statute of the institute by an inquiry committee.The inquiry conducted by Justice Saeed-Uz-Zaman Siddiqi (retired) also found the faculty members guilty of insubordination and of questioning the recruitment process of which they themselves were a part. The enquiry was instituted by the board of governors (BoG) of IIT and the report was submitted on the third week of August.In February 2018, a three-member fact finding committee found that assistant professor Subrahmanyam Saderla, an alumni of IIT-Kanpur, had been harassed and suitable action under the SC/ ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was recommended against the accused.The enquiry was instituted against professors C S Upadhyaya, Sanjay Mittal , Ishan Sharma and Rajiv Shekhar (now director of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad) following a complaint by Saderla who joined IIT-Kanpur on January 1, 2018.