Nationwide Institute of Know-how-Calicut (file)
A. Shaija, Professor on the Nationwide Institute of Know-how-Calicut (NIT-C), failed to show up on the Kunnamangalam police station on February 13 (Tuesday) after she was summoned for an in depth interrogation in reference to a case pertaining to her social media remark allegedly glorifying Mahatma Gandhi’s murderer Nathuram Godse. Police sources mentioned she has sought depart for 5 days on medical grounds.
The summons was served on February 11 after a preliminary interrogation by the Kunnamangalam police and a day after the NIT-C constituted a committee to analyze Prof. Shaija’s controversial touch upon a Fb submit wherein she allegedly thanked Godse for “saving India” from Gandhi.
The Fb submit was made by a lawyer, Krishnaraj, with {a photograph} of Godse and the caption ‘Hindu Mahasabha Activist Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a hero of many in India’. Prof. Shaija had deleted her remark after it had kicked up an argument.
The NIT-C issued a clarification that the establishment didn’t endorse or help any feedback that go in opposition to the rules and values upheld by Mahatma Gandhi. An announcement from the NIT-C mentioned the committee will examine numerous elements of the incident and put together a complete report, and applicable motion might be taken based mostly on the findings.
A number of complaints
In the meantime, a number of complaints have been lodged in opposition to Prof. Shaija with a number of police stations by pupil organisations such because the College students’ Federation of India, the Kerala College students Union, and the Muslim College students Federation following which an FIR was registered in opposition to her invoking Part 153 (wantonly giving provocation with the intend to trigger riot) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Pupil organisations, together with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the SFI, had taken out marches in protest to the NIT-C campus at Chathamangalam demanding motion in opposition to Prof. Shaija.
