Condemning the detention of a student for more than 27 hours on the alleged false charges in the office of the security wing of the Pondicherry University, professor (Retired) Ramadass urged its Vice-Chancellor Chandra Krishnamoorthy to dismiss the professors involved in the incident and launch a thorough inquiry into it.
In a statement here, Ramadass, who is contesting the elections for the Puducherry Lok Sabha seat as an independent candidate, said that even if the student had committed the act of entering the women’s hostel during odd hours, the Vice-Chancellor and the investigated the matter and then taken action against the student instead of taking law into their hands.
The former Member of Parliament said that professor Hariharan, against whom the CBI had sought the Pondicherry varsity Vice-Chancellor’s permission to prosecute with regard to a case of affiliation, was interfering in the matters of the university by taking it up on his own.
The police have already filed case under various sections 323, 324, 295, 342 of IPC against the persons, who were yet to submit themselves before the law enforcement authorities, the former Member of Parliament, Ramadass said.
The persons should be kept away from gaining access to the office of the Vice-Chancellor and interfering with the affairs of the university the former Member of Parliament further added.
The agitating students, meanwhile, said that they would wait till Tuesday for the university’s decision on action against the professors and security officials involved in the detention and torture of a student.
Meanwhile, the Senior Superintendent of Police (Law and Order) Omvir Singh Bishnoi and Superintendent of Police (North) Preveen Kumar Tripathy visited the residence of professor Hariharan, whose car had been allegedly damaged by the agitating students.
It may be recalled that the Radhakrishnan, a student of the Tamil Department of the Pondicherry University, was allegedly detained by the Head of the Academic Staff College and dean-in-charge professor Hariharan and professor Bhushan Sudhagar and security officials Shyam and Gunasekaran for more than a day. The detention was based on the charges that Radhakrishnan was accused of entering the women’s hostel at odd hours.
When he was challenged, Radhakrishnan had thrown chilli powder at the women security personnel, who had questioned him.
He was allegedly tortured during his detention. However, the student was exonerated by the disciplinary panel.
The Kalapet police registered cases against professors and the security officers regarding the incident.
The Kalapet police had also registered cases against other unnamed students, for allegedly causing damage to the property of professor Hariharan. This included his house and car.