The Chhattisgarh government has suspended a professor of a reputed college on charges of sexual misconduct with girls after protests and threats of suicide by the students.
"We had no option but to suspend B Mazoomdar for his regular highly objectionable sexual behaviour with girl students... he undermined the relationship between teachers and students," Higher Education Minister Ajay Chandrakar was reported to have said.
Mazoomdar was an assistant professor in the physics department of Science College. He had been facing the ire of students since the past three days after over a dozen girl students reported that he had misbehaved with them several times.
The students threatened to commit suicide if the authorities failed to take proper action against Mazoomdar. Chandrakar said a departmental inquiry had been ordered to decide on further action against the professor.
Mazoomdar's suspension order came after a probe panel, set up by the government on Monday to investigate the matter, found the charges by girls students genuine. More than 12 girls told the panel that the assistant professor was always on the lookout for an opportunity for physical contact and made objectionable and graphic gestures.
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