A Hyderabad court on Thursday convicted a visiting professor at the English and Foreign languages University (EFlU) in Andhra Pradesh for molesting a woman student. The court found Rajat Kumar Mohanty, a native of Cuttack, guilty under Section 354 of IPC and sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 on him.
Mohanty subsequently got bail, and he is going to challenge the verdict in the High Court, Inspector of Osmania University police station V Ashok Reddy said, according to reports. The 26-year-old woman had alleged that Mohanty, who was a guest faculty of linguistics and Phonetics at EFlU there, misbehaved with her after calling her to his room at the guesthouse on the university campus in December 2011.