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C.N. Vijayakumari, Head of the Sanskrit section and Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies astatine University of Kerala (KU), has approached the Kerala High Court alleging that she was being harassed by aggregate stakeholders implicit her not signing a PhD thesis of a probe scholar.
Following this, the High Court directed the university’s lasting counsel to get instructions. A Bench of Justice V.G. Arun besides observed that the tribunal had restrained the constabulary from arresting her aft she filed a bail plea successful transportation with the case.
She had been charged nether the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 successful a lawsuit charged by the constabulary regarding alleged casteist remarks she made against Vipin Vijayan, a probe scholar. He had alleged that she ‘refused to motion his thesis aft his unfastened defence and made derogatory remarks erstwhile helium approached her again to implicit the Ph.D process’.
Rebutting this, she had alleged that that the ailment was fabricated and politically motivated, intended to pressurise her into certifying an ‘invalid thesis’, and that she was being subjected to harassment and coercion for performing her world duties during an unfastened defence of his PhD thesis past month. She claimed successful her petition that she was being pressurised to ‘settle’ the substance and that a fewer Syndicate members attempted to coerce her into signing the documents pertaining to the probe scholar’s thesis.
The substance has been posted for proceeding connected November 17.
She had contended earlier the tribunal that the probe scholar, who is an progressive Students’ Federation of India (SFI) supporter, on with his associates intimidated, abused, and tried to coerce her into approving the thesis that was recovered to incorporate superior world defects. On her refusal, a mendacious and motivated ailment was lodged against her, starring to the registration of the contiguous crime’. The campaigner performed unsatisfactorily and helium was incapable to reply adjacent the basal and cardinal questions posed by the audience, and the thesis presented by him was recovered to incorporate respective superior methodological, factual, and conceptual errors, she said.
