Jadavpur University forms committee to probe plaint of harassment

The committee consists of four deans and four professors, will probe the incident in which professor Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya, the head of the Chemistry Department, was allegedly verbally abused by a Group-D staffer when he asked him to unlock the doors of a classroom last week, they said.

Jadavpur University forms committee to probe plaint of harassment

Jadavpur University has formed an eight-member committee to look into the matter of abuse of senior professor allegedly by a non-teaching staffer.

The committee, consists of four deans and four professors, will probe the incident in which professor Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya, the head of the Chemistry Department, was allegedly verbally abused by a Group-D staffer when he asked him to unlock the doors of a classroom last week, they said.

"The panel, which will submit its report by the end of this month, will further investigate what triggered the incident, whether the staffer disobeyed the professor and also the role of others present at the spot," an official said.

Around a hundred faculty members of the Science, Engineering and Arts departments demonstrated outside the office of Registrar Snehamanju Basu, demanding action against the non-teaching staffer.

On November 30, a support staff, Uday Bhan Sing, was reportedly questioned by the chemistry department head why he was not doing his assigned work and reporting late for duty. Singh reportedly snatched the attendance register and harassed the professor.

Two other complaints were filed by the head of civil engineering department and a sweeper against Sara Bangla Siksha Bandhu Samiti’s president, Binoy Kumar Singh. 

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