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Cops arrest NUJS ass’t registrar 5 months after sex harass & threats FIR

NUJS: Police catches up with accused
NUJS: Police catches up with accused
The police has arrested NUJS assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who has been dodging the police after an FIR was filed against him five months ago for allegedly sexually harassing a colleague and threatening her with acid attacks.

NDTV reported that Guha was questioned by Kolkata’s Bidhannagar South police station yesterday and taken into custody.

According to NDTV, Guha is accused under IPC sections 500 (defamation), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (outrage of modesty through words and gestures), 354 (outrage of modesty) and 354A (sexual harassment), and sections 66 and 67 of the Information Technology Act.

The victim had first filed her complaint on 12 June, allegedly over a year after informally bringing the issue to NUJS vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt’s notice. After no internal hearing in her complaint at the law school for 43 days, she filed a criminal complaint at the Bidhannagar police station in Kolkata against the accused. The law school suspended the accused on 10 August, for non-cooperation in the ICC’s inquiry against him.

The internal sexual harassment complaints committee (ICC) of three members has taken time to deliberate on the complaint, made by a non-academic staff member in the vice chancellor’s office.

In September the college’s executive council rejected the ICC’s interim finding that the allegedly lewd messages sent by Guha were “expressions of romantic interest and love”, rather than “sexual in nature”. One ICC member, TVNGS Sudhakar, dissented with the interim report.

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