Sexual harassment: UAS V-C’s PA, stenographer suspended
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Dharwad:25.04.2021
The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, has suspended two of its employees on charges of alleged misconduct. The varsity administrator has issued orders suspending the vice-chancellor’s personal assistant M A Mulla and stenographer U B Mestri on Friday.
The action comes after Dharwad suburban police registered an FIR against the two officials on Thursday in connection with the death of two women in an accident. Based on the complaint filed by Pratibha Singanath, mother of Meghana Singanath, police have registered the FIR against Mulla and Mestri.
Meghana and Rekha Kokatnur, who were working at the UAS on contract, died in an accident near Mastikatta near Ankola in Uttara Kannada district on January 30 when the car in which they were travelling collided with another vehicle. The car was being driven by Mulla and Mestri was another occupant.
Pratibha in her complaint has claimed that Mulla was sexually harassing the two women and had taken them to Goa on the pretext of taking them to Bagalkot for official work. Mestri had allegedly raped the two women in Goa and had threatened them of dire consequences if they told anyone about the incident, the complaint said. The car met with the accident while returning from Goa and both the women were killed.
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