The warning came after a five-member investigation committee headed by Prof Dr Golam Martuza submitted its report to the VC on Sunday night.

The report blamed Prof Naki for negligence of duty by not accompanying 98 students in an excursion in the Sundarbans in March this year.

The probe body also blamed him for not requesting the Sundarbans Forest Department authorities to give all necessary logistic supports to the students.

Nine students of final year class in Architecture discipline of Khulna University and two students of fourth year class of BUET Mechanical Department swept away in the Bay at Katka during the excursion on March 13. The dead also included a girl student.

Meanwhile, Prof Naki has gone on one year leave. In his place Assistant Professor Gouri Shankar Roy took over the charge, according to an official order by KUVC Professor Dr A Kadir Bhuiyan.

Angry students asked the VC to cancel Dr Naki's leave until a decision is taken in a Syndicate meeting.

The VC is yet to fix a date for holding the Syndicate meeting for discussion on the 28-page report of the committee formed to probe 'The Katka Tragedy.'