ahmedabad letters allegedly written by professor sarman zala who has been booked for sexual harassment and threatening at workplace were replete with sexual innuendo and references to porn stars gujarat university on monday served a showcause notice for suspension to zala vice chancellor of gu m n patel said zala has been asked to reply in the next three days failing which he shall be suspended from service we have asked him to explain the sexual harassment charges leveled against him by three of his women colleagues this face of zala has come as a complete shocker for colleagues because he used to pose as a dogooder and a person who would help anybody in distress he was quite respected among lecturers and professors of the school of social science and often young colleagues approached him for advice said a gu official gu sources said zala has gone on a 15day leave tnn gujarat university authorities and police officials who are probing the case now feel that zala may be a sex addict the manner in which zala has written the lewd letters to the three women professors has embarrassed everybody who has read them the references and words that zala has used seem to have been copied from pornographic literature said an official of the school of social science one of the woman professors who filed the complaint against zala told toi these lewd letters were posted to our homes and office the letters were written in english and gujarati but when we had approached gu authorities at the womens development cell which is meant to act on such matters it didnt do anything finally the three of us took it on ourselves to file a complaint against zala police now believe that this was not the first time sarman zala wrote lewd letters to women colleagues top officials of gujarat university are also probing apprehensions that zala was a habitual offender and had harassed unsuspecting women colleagues in the past