An Assistant Professor of the OUAT Basic Science College here has been accused of sexually harassing seven of his male students.The teacher of the Chemistry department has been relieved of his duties and asked to go on leave after the issue came to the fore. The OUAT Vice-Chancellor has formed a departmental committee to conduct an inquiry into the allegation and submit a report within seven days.
The man has been accused of misusing his powers and has apparently been doing this since many years now. At times, he takes young students out in his car for dinner at star hotels. At other times, he directly threatens to fail them in examination to exploit them sexually.
As per the complaint lodged by victims, he often calls students to his chamber or to his house when he is alone and shows them porn clips from his cell phone and forces them to engage with him sexually. He has been accused of doing it in several hotels of the city, in the car at lonely places such as the empty place near the Kamala Nehru College area and in several parks of the city such as the Indira Gandhi Park.
He has also been accused of photographing the nude students and recording videos of the act and then forwarding them to others through WhatsApp.
Fed up with the torture, some of the victims yesterday met the university Director Bikash Panda and complained against the Assistant Professor. later, they lodged a written complaint in this regard with the Vice-Chancellor.
said Director Panda reportedly aid there is truth in the accusation. A committee has been formed to investigate this issue and action would be taken against the teacher after receipt of the committee’s report.