Tuesday, 16 December 2014

IIT-Guwahati dean of academic affairs AK Ghosal arrested for alleged rape


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IIT-Guwahati Dean Arrested for Allegedly Raping Office AssistantThe students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Guwahati will on Wednesday take out a protest march in the wake of the arrest of the dean of academic affairs for allegedly raping an office assistant; an employee. "A case was registered against IIT Guwahati Professor Alok Kumar Ghosal at the Panbazar. IIT is India's premier engineering and management educational institute. There are 16 IITs in the country. He was brought to the police station for examination last night (Monday) and now he has been arrested," Guwahati City Senior Superintendent of Police AP Tiwari told reporters on Tuesday here. Tiwari got some evidence and found that there is a need to arrest him for proper investigation. The case against the dean has been registered under Section 376(2)(b) of IPC (public servant taking advantage of his official position and committing rape on a woman). An IIT-G official, speaking on the development, said, "A case was registered by an office assistant against our Dean, Professor Ghosal of the Chemical Engineering Department. The police had come yesterday to the IIT-G campus with a notice but as he was not present, the institute's authority accepted it and assured it would be handed to him. A source in the IIT said that Ghoshal has been removed from the administration and a new dean has been appointed. police had arrived on the campus looking for him, Ghosal had reportedly left hiring a taxi through the transportation section. The police followed him after contacting the taxi driver, and found him walking hurriedly on the Brahmaputra bridge after the vehicle was stuck in the afternoon traffic jam. The police reportedly apprehended him from there and took him to the Women Police Station where he was finally arrested. Ghosal, who had joined IIT Guwahati in 2003, had earlier served as a professor in BITS, Pilani. Elevated to the HoD of Chemical Engineering in 2005, he was later also appointed Dean of Academic Affairs in 2012. The authorities meanwhile have placed him under suspension following his arrest. Woman did not lodge a complaint with the Internal Complaints Committee and chose to go directly to the police. Before the notice could be handed to Professor Ghosal, we learnt that the police had taken him into custody outside the campus. According to the SSP, today Prof Ghosal has been arrested. The assistant made the accusation 11 days after the alleged event," the official said without mentioning the date when the complaint was made. Prof Ghosal was later produced before a local court which remanded him to judicial custody. "As he confessed to everything before production in court, police custody was not required today. If we feel the requirement, will move the court," Tiwari said. "After careful examination of facts and witnesses, we had called him and started interrogation with evidence," he said. Asked if medical tests have been done, the SSP said, "Everything has been done and being done for qualitative investigation". IIT Guwahati Professor Alok Kumar Ghosal has a B Tech degree in chemical engineering from Calcutta University and M Tech and a doctor of philosophy (chemical engineering) from IIT, Kharagpur.


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