The former dean of arts at Jadavpur University, Subhasis Biswas, who had tested positive for Covid, died early on Tuesday.

Biswas, 49, was admitted to a private hospital last Wednesday after he took ill at his home in Garfa.

The history professor was put on a ventilator on Monday.

Biswas’s tenure as dean ended in June 2019. In August 2018, he had resigned from the post of dean, head of the history department and convener of the admissions committee following complaints that many students who had scored 90 per cent or more in the Plus II board exams had been given 10 out of 100 or less in the university’s admissions test.

Some of the prospective students had moved court. He had later withdrawn his resignation. After his tenure ended as dean, he continued as a professor in the history department.