Friday, February 4, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Students' tonsuring: Case filed against director of institute

 

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/134766/students-tonsuring-case-filed-against.html

Students' tonsuring: Case filed against director of institute
Ghaziabad, Feb 4, (PTI):

A case has been registered against the director of a management
institute here for allegedly forcing 30 students to tonsure their
heads due to non payment of fees, police said today.

A criminal case against the director Pramal Chakrovarty and four
others of Institute of Management Studies (IMS) here has been
registered under sections 147, 504 and 506 of IPC and 3/1 of the SC/ST
Act on a complaint filed by three engineering students--Dinesh Kumar,
Ashwani and Vipin Kumar, SHO Massoori police station Sanjeev Kumar
said.

The complainants alleged that about a month before, their admit cards
for examination was detained by the management of the institute on
account of not paying some enhanced fees and later they forced 30
students to have their heads shaved for non payment of dues, he said.

"The reports, so far, are based on allegations. We are investigating
before the charges can be established and any action taken," Ghaziabad
SSP Raghuvir Lal said.

The students, who were made to tonsure their heads, complained they
were not allowed to sit in the examination which concluded yesterday,
Kumar said, adding the students strongly protested against the
management and demanded the arrest of thre director and other faculty
members today.

"I was allowed to sit in the examination and other students expressed
fear of being either failed or getting poor assessment in internal
assessment," said a student Manish Kumar Maurya.

Officials of the institute were not immediately available for comment.

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