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Pondicherry University has directed 2 module members, facing charges of intersexual misconduct levelled by students, to proceed connected compulsory permission pending the completion of the ongoing probe by the institution’s Internal Complaints Committee (ICC).
The ICC had launched an enquiry into complaints of intersexual harassment against 2 module members serving connected its main field astir a period ago. Both module members person been directed to spell connected compulsory permission aft 2 students came guardant to lodge a written ailment with the panel.
“A period agone itself, the committee had started enquiry into the complaints, and some module members are connected forced permission until the probe process is over. In 1 case, the committee has astir completed the process. We are pursuing the owed process of instrumentality and guidelines nether the Sexual Harassment of Women Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act with respect to each circumstantial allegations,” a highly placed root told The Hindu.
The ICC, chaired by A. Shahin Sultana, professor, Department of Social Work, was successful the process of completing the enquiry pursuing each laid-out procedures, the authoritative said.
As acold arsenic 2 different cases — that the students had raised during the caller agitation connected the field — are concerned, the authoritative said the allegations against a module of PU’s Karaikal field was being investigated by the District Level Complaints Committee (DLCC), which comes nether the supervision of the Karaikal District Collector.
Police enquiry to beryllium launched
Moreover, astatine a gathering chaired by Home Minister A. Namassivayam connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) evening, it was decided to motorboat a constabulary probe into the 2 cases presently being investigated by the ICC, 1 by the DLCC, and besides the allegations against different module serving connected the main campus.
“In whichever lawsuit the unfortunate has travel guardant to springiness a written complaint, the ICC has launched an investigation. As acold arsenic the Karaikal lawsuit is concerned, the ailment was by a 3rd enactment and that excessively was being investigated by the DLCC. Another allegation has surfaced successful PU and that volition besides beryllium investigated by the police. So, altogether, 4 allegations volition beryllium taken up for enquiry by the police. An SSP-rank serviceman is apt to instrumentality up the preliminary investigation. A notification regarding appointing the serviceman volition beryllium issued soon,” helium said.
The gathering convened by the Home Minister was attended by Vice Chancellor P. Prakash Babu, Professor and Dean Students’ Welfare Y. Venkata Rao, Senior Superintendent of Police, Law and Order, Kalaivanan, elder constabulary officers, and representatives of the Students Federation of India (SFI).
The gathering besides resolved to clasp the PU Union elections by November and thereafter re-constitute the ICC, which was 1 of the cardinal demands of a students’ agitation connected the campus, which had turned unruly connected October 9 midnight. The authorities has besides agreed to look into the request of students to retreat the cases registered against 24 students pursuing the unrest connected the campus.
“There is simply a process progressive successful the withdrawal of cases. The Minister has assured to look into the request of the students and we volition spell by the rules and merit of the cases,” said a constabulary officer.
Students retreat protest
Following the gathering the Home Minister had with the module and SFI representatives, the students decided to retreat the agitation launched connected the field demanding the reconstitution of the ICC.
