College wakes up to scandal after 25 days
A.Selvaraj@timesgroup.com
18.04.2018
Chennai: The Virudhunagar police believe that the college management placed assistant professor Nirmala Devi under suspension in the hope that the issue would die down. Though they placed her under suspension on March 21, the college authorities neither lodged a formal police complaint nor inquired into the issue by constituting a college committee.
The authorities woke up to the issue only on Sunday, at least 25 days after taking departmental action against Nirmala Devi, only after members of a women forum and DYFI members protested in front of the college demanding that the college authorities lodge a police complaint against the professor.
After the police got wind of the protest, they approached the college authorities. It was only then that secretary of Devanga Arts and Science College R Ramasamy lodged a formal complaint at the Aruppukottai police station and the police arrested Nirmala Devi.
Virudhunagar district superintendent of police M Rajarajan sent a detailed report of the issue and the case was immediately taken up to the state government, which transferred it to the CB-CID on Tuesday. Ramasamy refused to comment on the issue as the matter is now under police investigation.
The Aruppukottai police registered a case under IPC Sections 370 (trafficking of people), read with 511(conspiracy) and Section 67 of Information Technology Act.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that there were three factions in the college, one of which had leaked information about the issue to the women’s forum and ensured that they stage protests so it would become a bigger deal.
Investigations revealed that Nirmala Devi had obtained her PhD degree in Mathematics five years ago from Madurai Kamaraj University.
(With inputs from Padmini Sivarajah)
‘Probe panel by guv may not lead to fair inquiry’
Chennai: An advocate has approached the Madras high court seeking CBI probe into the allegations against MKU assistant professor Nirmala Devi. The plea moved by advocate G S Mani is likely to be heard by the first bench of the court on Friday. According to the petitioner, when there are allegations against the Tamil Nadu governor, a probe commission formed by him would not give a fair and transparent result. TNN
A.Selvaraj@timesgroup.com
18.04.2018
Chennai: The Virudhunagar police believe that the college management placed assistant professor Nirmala Devi under suspension in the hope that the issue would die down. Though they placed her under suspension on March 21, the college authorities neither lodged a formal police complaint nor inquired into the issue by constituting a college committee.
The authorities woke up to the issue only on Sunday, at least 25 days after taking departmental action against Nirmala Devi, only after members of a women forum and DYFI members protested in front of the college demanding that the college authorities lodge a police complaint against the professor.
After the police got wind of the protest, they approached the college authorities. It was only then that secretary of Devanga Arts and Science College R Ramasamy lodged a formal complaint at the Aruppukottai police station and the police arrested Nirmala Devi.
Virudhunagar district superintendent of police M Rajarajan sent a detailed report of the issue and the case was immediately taken up to the state government, which transferred it to the CB-CID on Tuesday. Ramasamy refused to comment on the issue as the matter is now under police investigation.
The Aruppukottai police registered a case under IPC Sections 370 (trafficking of people), read with 511(conspiracy) and Section 67 of Information Technology Act.
Preliminary inquiries revealed that there were three factions in the college, one of which had leaked information about the issue to the women’s forum and ensured that they stage protests so it would become a bigger deal.
Investigations revealed that Nirmala Devi had obtained her PhD degree in Mathematics five years ago from Madurai Kamaraj University.
(With inputs from Padmini Sivarajah)
‘Probe panel by guv may not lead to fair inquiry’
Chennai: An advocate has approached the Madras high court seeking CBI probe into the allegations against MKU assistant professor Nirmala Devi. The plea moved by advocate G S Mani is likely to be heard by the first bench of the court on Friday. According to the petitioner, when there are allegations against the Tamil Nadu governor, a probe commission formed by him would not give a fair and transparent result. TNN
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