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C.N. Vijayakumari, Head of the Sanskrit section and Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies astatine Kerala University, has been booked by the Thiruvananthapuram City constabulary nether provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for allegedly making casteist remarks against a probe scholar.
The Sreekaryam constabulary registered the lawsuit based connected a ailment filed by Vipin Vijayan, a PhD scholar. She has been booked nether Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the Act. The non-bailable sections subordinate to intentionally insulting oregon abusing a subordinate of a Scheduled Caste oregon a Scheduled Tribe successful immoderate spot wrong nationalist view.
According to the complaint, the prof allegedly refused to motion Mr. Vijayan’s thesis aft his unfastened defence and made derogatory remarks erstwhile helium approached her again to implicit the PhD process. The complainant besides alleged that she had made akin derogatory remarks since 2015, erstwhile helium joined the MPhil programme astatine the assemblage nether her supervision.
In a Facebook post, the probe student had accused her of attempting to sabotage his PhD valuation by questioning his cognition of Sanskrit and claimed that her actions were motivated by caste and governmental bias. “My authorities is left-wing. The teacher follows RSS-BJP ideology and is an progressive subordinate of the Sangh Parivar-affiliated teachers’ relation astatine the university,” helium wrote.
Minister orders inquiry
Higher Education Minister R. Bindu has ordered an enquiry into the incidental and directed the Vice-Chancellor to follow strict ineligible enactment against those recovered guilty.
Dr. Bindu, successful her capableness arsenic Pro-Chancellor, besides noted successful her connection to the Vice-Chancellor that specified an incidental occurring successful a premier institution, peculiarly 1 that has secured a A++ NAAC accreditation and ranks 5th among State Public Universities successful the NIRF, has tarnished the estimation of the higher acquisition assemblage and the State arsenic a whole.
The probe student has already launched a ailment with the Vice-Chancellor. Acknowledging the seriousness of the issue, the Minister has ordered the Principal Secretary of Higher Education section to behaviour an contiguous probe and taxable a elaborate report.
The Minister besides directed that the appropriateness of the module member’s nationalist statements successful ocular media beryllium examined arsenic portion of the inquiry. Moreover, Dr. Bindu instructed the assemblage Registrar to guarantee that each indispensable ineligible measures are taken and to taxable a study without delay.
