The West Bengal PhD student, who has alleged sexual harassment by an IIT Bhubaneswar Professor, knocked at the doors of the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) here on Saturday seeking justice.
She submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik demanding stringent action against the Professor.
Earlier on the day, the woman had visited the State BJP office and submitted a memorandum in this regard addressed to Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and State BJP president Basant Panda. On Friday, she had lodged an FIR at the Mahila police station here alleging sexual harassment by the IIT Professor PD Reddy and some officials of the institute including the Registrar for conniving with Reddy. The Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the premier institute had earlier conducted an investigation into the woman’s accusations and termed them ‘baseless’ in its report.