Jadavpur University students file a general diary against professor for inappropriate behavior

As many as 35 students in their charges against the professor accused him of taking photographs of female students without their consent, inappropriate physical contact, uninvited comments about the students’ looks, dress, figure and social life, and intimate questions and remarks about the size of bed a girl would require with her partner and which girl would be better as wife material. 

Jadavpur University students file a general diary against professor for inappropriate behavior

A group of students from Jadavpur University have filed an application for a general diary at a police station, listing allegations of inappropriate behaviour against a professor in the institution. As many as 35 students in their charges against the professor accused him of taking photographs of female students without their consent, inappropriate physical contact, uninvited comments about the students’ looks, dress, figure and social life, and intimate questions and remarks about the size of bed a girl would require with her partner and which girl would be better as wife material. 

At the end of the printed application, which was signed by the 35 students who included male and female students, a handwritten note was added: “We don’t want a case for the time being.” One of the students told The Telegraph that the officer in charge of the police station told them to add that line. “He told us to write that we did not want a case to be registered for the time being.”

Asked by this newspaper, a senior police officer said: “The officer in charge of Jadavpur police station had told the students that from the nature of their complaint, he was bound to draw up an FIR. The students had, however, said they did not want an FIR for the time being as it was not their personal decision to take.”

As the OC repeated that he would be bound to start a case going by the content of the letter of complaint, the students gave it in writing that they did not want a case for the time being, the officer said. A general diary, unlike an FIR, does not require the mandatory registration of a case. 

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