The reader who was accused of sexually harassing a research scholar in Bangalore University’s Postgraduate (PG) Centre in Kolar, has been transferred to the distance education department. He will not be allocated girl students to guide research work henceforth, and will also not get any more promotions. However, no police complaint has been filed.
The decisions, approved by BU’s syndicate, were announced on Thursday. The guide, Ka Vem Srinivas Murthy, was indicted by an inquiry committee constituted by the varsity comprising BU lecturers and senior advocates.
Mr. Murthy allegedly forced the victim to go to the Markandeshwara hill in Kolar on the pretext of dropping her home in Malur and tried molesting her there.
BU Registrar (Administration) K.K. Seethamma said Mr. Murthy was eligible to be promoted to the post of professor from his current post of reader (which is equivalent to the post of associate professor), but his promotion was kept in abeyance as the inquiry against him was pending. “Now that he has been found guilty, he will have no further promotions and will not enjoy the privileges of being a professor. In the Directorate of Correspondence Courses and Distance Education, he will not be involved in teaching,” she said.
