Three feminine college students from the Visva-Bharati College in West Bengal have lodged an FIR towards a visitor professor alleging that he sought sexual favours in change for passing them in semester exams.
Within the criticism, the three college students of Persian, Urdu and Islamic Research division alleged that the accused additionally despatched lewd messages to them individually on WhatsApp, and inappropriately touched them at instances.
A Visva-Bharati official advised the PTI information company if the scholars method the Inner Complaints Committee (ICC) of the central college, “it would look into the fees and take acceptable motion”.
The accused visitor professor had even promised to assist them within the semester exams if the three women agreed to his proposals, the scholars alleged.
A replica of the criticism, lodged at Santiniketan police station on March 28 and recorded within the court docket of ACJM, Bolpur, was made accessible to the PTI information company on Saturday.
A police official mentioned investigations into the matter are underway.
Nonetheless, the accused instructor denied the fees and mentioned he was being framed.
“I’ve been educating right here so lengthy. By no means have such allegations been levelled towards me up to now,” he added.
Visva-Bharati College College Affiliation spokesperson Sudipta Bhattacharya mentioned a correct enquiry needs to be performed on the earliest into the allegations.
