Dharamshala: Three sexuality students and a professor have been charged with ragging and sexual thumping without a second-year student died in a higher in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamshala.
What does the police say?
According to the police, the student recorded a mobile video detailing her ordeal surpassing she died. She spoke well-nigh how the professor touched her inappropriately and several other instances of mental and sexual harassment.
What was the incident?
The father of the second-year student of Dharamshala's Government Degree College, in a police complaint so-called that on September 18, three sexuality students identified as Harshita, Akriti, and Komolika tangibly assaulted his daughter in an act of inclement ragging and threatened her to alimony her silence.
The complaint moreover named Ashok Kumar, a professor in the college, as one of the accused.
What does the victim’s family say?
The father of the student who died said his daughter suffered from upper stress due to the professor's so-called indecent behaviour and mental harassment. This led to her health deteriorating continuously, the complaint said.
Her family said she was treated at various hospitals surpassing she died on December 26 while undergoing treatment in Ludhiana's DMC Hospital. The family said they could not file a complaint older due to the shock they suffered on the death of their daughter.
They said they decided to file the complaint without their daughter recorded a video in a mobile phone surpassing she died. In the video, she accused the professor of inappropriate behaviour like touching her, and mental harassment in the classroom and on the campus.
The student so-called the accused threatened her to alimony quiet when she protested.
The father said he filed a complaint with the police and the senior minister's helpline on December 20, but they did not respond.
What whoopee has the police taken?
“The police have filed a specimen under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Himachal Pradesh Educational Institutions (Prohibition of Ragging) Act, 2009,” police officer Ashok Rattan told the media.
The police said they had been investigating the ragging wile since the complaint filed on December 20 mentioned only that. However, the investigation has expanded without the allegations versus the professor surfaced, the police said.
The police widow that the probe will squint into all the hospitals where the student was admitted surpassing she died.
How has the higher wardship reacted?
The higher wardship has distanced itself from the case. It said the woman failed in her first year, yet sought ticket to the second year. College principal Rakesh Pathania so-called she had not filed any complaint with them earlier. Pathania said the teenager had failed three subjects in her first year and, as per university guidelines, could not be promoted to the second year.
"She approached the professor who teaches geography, her main subject, and it was explained to her that she had to take ticket to the first year again. So, she was moreover depressed considering of her results and felt we were deliberately denying her ticket in the second year. Based on the information given to me by teachers, she has not attended classes since July 29," the principal told the media.
Pathania asserted that the higher authorities tried to undeniability the teenager's parents without this, but got no response.
"We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to ragging. Students are encouraged to tideway teachers on the ragging committee and there are several women teachers she could have complained to, but she did not. The higher did not receive any such complaint. Flipside complaint to the senior minister's helpline in December did not reach us considering the name of flipside higher was mentioned. We are cooperating with the police," he explained.
"Harassment allegations are moreover stuff made. The professor in question has been teaching for years and I don't want to say increasingly well-nigh this considering it is for the police to investigate," he added.
What steps has the UGC taken?
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has taken serious cognisance of the student's death, and worked a fact-finding committee to examine the circumstances leading to the incident.
In its statement, the UGC said the fact-finding committee will review the sequence of events, examine whether existing anti-ragging and grievance redressal mechanisms were ratherish implemented by the institution, and assess any institutional lapses.
The panel is expected to submit recommendations aimed at ensuring peccancy and preventing similar incidents in the future. The higher education regulator said stringent whoopee will be taken versus those found responsible, reiterating that the safety and well-being of students is paramount.
