Women Commission inquires into BHMS girl students’ complaint against teacher

BHUBANESWAR: Following the complaint lodged at the State Commission for Women (SCW) by the girl students of the State run Dr Abhin Chandra Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital against their teachers for allegedly harassing them mentally, chairperson of the commission Jyoti Panigrahi on Thursday visited the college campus here and has started inquiry into the matter. On the other hand, the students informed that they would knock the door of the State Human Rights Commission to get justice.

According to the students of the college, on August 24, they locked up their teachers who had been giving threatening to lodge criminal cases against eleven students for damaging college office on July 23. On that day all the students had gheraoed the office and locked up the teachers in the office. After police intervention, the students released all the teachers in the evening except Principal in-charge whom they released later. On August 24 evening during their office gherao, one teacher misbehaved girl students for which the students had lodged a complaint at the SCW to take action against the teacher, the students added.

Chairperson Panigrahy visited the college campus to investigate into the matter. “After the inquiry the truth would come out, she said.

It may be noted the students of the college have been demanding for the appointment of the teachers in their college. They have only 11 teachers including a reader in the place of 48 teachers including five professors, said a third year BHMS student Sarada Prasanna Samantray of the college. Now they don’t have any professors, he added.

It is our genuine demand, but the teachers and the college administration want to suppress our demand by threatening us, said another student. Some of the raged students ransacked the college office on July 23 and from that day the college authorities are mentally harassing us, he added.