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    Will resign if required: St Stephen's principal

    Sripriya Yegneswaran
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    Last updated on Jul 06, 2015, 02:12 pm
    Will resign if required: St Stephen's principal
  • Valson Thampu whose name has been dragged in a sexual harassment case said that he would resign if "he was a cause of embarrassment to the institution".

    Thampu has been under spotlight pressurizing the victim to withdraw the case.

    Teachers, women activists and students took to the streets asking for him to resign.

    Thampu alleged that certain elements in college had incited the complainant.

  • In this article
    St Stephen's student lodges complaint against professor How is principal Thampu involved? Thampu's reaction to the allegations Anticipatory bail denied to professor Shielding the staff, a regular affair? Prime accused moves to HC; gets stay orders HRD ministry directs UGC probe in molestation case Will resign if required: St Stephen's principal
  • 20 Jun 2015

    St Stephen's student lodges complaint against professor

    St Stephen's student lodges complaint against professor
  • A PhD student of St Stephen's College filed a complaint with Delhi Police against a professor for sexuallly harassing her.

    According to her, Satish Kumar, a chemistry professor (who also functions as the bursar) molested her on 15 October 2013.

    He was accused of stalking her, passing snide comments and threatening to throw acid on her.

    She also accused him of blocking her stipend.

  • 20 Jun 2015

    How is principal Thampu involved?

    How is principal Thampu involved?
  • The complainant also included Principal Valson Thampu's name in the complaint for trying to 'protect' the professor when the matter was brought to his notice.

    The complainant's parents too have accused Thampu for referring the matter in December 2014 as a "purely academic problem".

    He is accused of threatening the girl to either address the matter as an 'academic problem' or lose her degree.

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    Thampu's reaction to the allegations

  • Thampu in his defence said that when the complaint had been brought to him, he had asked the complainant to change her guide, something that she had refused herself.

  • 23 Jun 2015

    Anticipatory bail denied to professor

    Anticipatory bail denied to professor
  • Satish Kumar was denied anticipatory bail by a Delhi trial court.

    He had said that the girls' accusations were 'concocted' and there was no eye witnesses to substantiate her claim.

    Kumar's counsel also told the court that his client "was 85 per cent physically disabled" who cannot walk without a stick and therefore could not have molested the researcher.

  • Do you know?

    Shielding the staff, a regular affair?

  • Sunil Mathews, the complainant's lawyer said that "this is the fourth such case in which Thampu is shielding the accused in a molestation case in his college".

  • 3 Jul 2015

    Prime accused moves to HC; gets stay orders

    Prime accused moves to HC; gets stay orders
  • The Delhi High Court deferred the arrest of the St Stephen's chemistry teacher till 17 July.

    The court postponed the matter issuing a notice to the city police asking them to file a report on the investigation in this particular case.

    Kumar moved to High Court after a trial court dismissed his bail plea on 23 June.

  • 5 Jul 2015

    HRD ministry directs UGC probe in molestation case

    HRD ministry directs UGC probe in molestation case
  • The progress in the molestation case by the internal complaints committee (ICC) of St Stephen's will be checked by the University Grants Commission under directions from the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

    The HRD Ministry has urged UGC to make sure the investigation is completed by college's ICC "impartially" and "expeditiously" and to report why no action had been taken so far.

  • 7 Jul 2015

    Will resign if required: St Stephen's principal

    Will resign if required: St Stephen's principal
  • Valson Thampu whose name has been dragged in a sexual harassment case said that he would resign if "he was a cause of embarrassment to the institution".

    Thampu has been under spotlight pressurizing the victim to withdraw the case.

    Teachers, women activists and students took to the streets asking for him to resign.

    Thampu alleged that certain elements in college had incited the complainant.

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