500 female students in Haryana accuse professor of sexual harassment, write to CM, PM Modi
Accusing their professor of sexual harassment, 500 female students in Haryana have written a letter to Prime Minister Modi and Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, demanding his suspension and an investigation.
New Delhi: Crime against women is a major problem worldwide and multiple cases of sexual harassment are reported every day. This is also a major problem in India, but nowadays the number of reports of these cases has increased, which shows the power of women to fight and report the crime they have faced. In a similar incident, five hundred women who are students of Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Sirsa, Haryana have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. The female students allege that a university professor sexually harassed them and are therefore demanding his suspension and an investigation into the matter.
500 students accuse professor of sexual harassment
As mentioned earlier, five hundred female students from Sirsa, Haryana have written a letter to Prime Minister Modi and Haryana CM Khattar, alleging sexual harassment by a professor at Chaudhary Devi Lal University. According to a report by NDTV, the students have accused the professor of ‘filthy and obscene acts’ where he calls the girls to his office, then takes them to a toilet and ‘touches private parts and (does) obscene things to us’. When they protested, the women were told they would face “very bad” consequences. The letter has revealed that this has been going on for ‘many months’ and just because he (professor) gives the impression of high character, no fingers have been raised at him and he has not been held accountable till date.
The letter also states that when the girls approached the vice chancellor, he threatened to expel the students because the professor is “a person of enormous political influence.” The letter claims that to quell the issue, the VC also allegedly tried to give better marks to the students in both written and practical examinations.
Women students write letter to CM, PM Modi
The women wrote all the details in a letter and sent it to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office and to Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar. The copy of the letter has also been sent to the university’s vice-chairman Dr Ajmer Singh Malik, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij, Haryana Governor Banaru Dattatreya and Rekha Sharma, chairperson of the National Commission for Women. Certain media organizations and senior government officials have also received a copy of the letter.
Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case
According to the police, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe the case and Additional Director General of Police Shrikant Jadhav has said, “We have immediately formed the SIT headed by IPS officer Deepti Garg. (The SIT) is recording statements. Statements have already been collected from many people.”