Finally, it is proved, Barkatullah University (BU) administration did not carry out its responsibility properly in the eve-teasing case, according to the report of special committee that investigated the case. It is also clarified in the report that the girls were eve-teased.
Students of Physics department were eve-teased by students of Barkatullah University Institute of Technology (BUIT) on January 3, this year. BU administration had accused its teaching and non-teaching staff for hyping the matter and tarnishing university's reputation and got the matter investigated by a judicial committee also.
Department of Higher Education (DHE) demanded clarification on the report from BU Registrar Sanjay Tiwari over the university's negligence. Higher Education Minister laxmikant Sharma had formed a special committee consisting of MlB College Principal Manjula Sharma, Nutan College Principal Shobhna Bajpai Maaru and Institute for Excellence in Higher Education (IEHE) Director Pramila Maini to investigate the eve-teasing matter. The special committee submitted its report two months ago.
Now, DHE after analyzing the report for over two months has demanded clarification over it. According to the sources, university administration is now in trouble as they are not able to decide their response.
In the report total seven mistakes of university administration has been mentioned. It is clearly cited in the report that University administration is solely responsible in tarnishing the reputation of university by negligence in taking action. Report raised questions over the administration of Vice Chancellor Nisha Dubey as she received the complaint of the incident through the media persons instead of her staff.
University administration did not show any concern towards the victim girl, instead the incident surfaced the factionalism among the university teachers and administration.
Special committee also mentioned the apathy of university administration as it did not provide medical assistance to the students who were injured during the incident.
The committee also pointed finger over Rector DC Gupta and Women Cell Chairperson Professor Neerja Sharma. According to the report Gupta and Sharma denied their statements published in newspapers while Prof Asha Shukla gave evidence of their statements.