Fired DU prof seeks FIR for caste slurs

New Delhi: A Delhi court has sought an action taken report from the police on a complaint filed by a sacked professor of a DU college seeking registration of FIR under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the principal for alleged casteist remarks. Additional Sessions Judge Charu Aggarwal has sought the report from the station house officer on the

application. The complainant, who worked as an assistant professor, moved the court alleging that the principal along with four professors, hatched a conspiracy to terminate her from service by forging documents, creating false records, fabricating and giving false

evidence.

"The behaviour of accused number 1 (principal) has been casteist, demeaning, discriminatory, threatening towards the complainant that the accused No.1 used to make casteist remarks so much so that on August 10, 2020, the complainant was refused her re-joining from the job," the complaint stated.

The professor sought direction from the court to the police to register an FIR against the principal and others under various sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Indian Penal Code and punish them in accordance with the law.

The complainant said that she got selected by a "meticulous selection process on a post reserved for the scheduled caste community as she belongs to the Ravidasia caste."