DU teacher booked for harassing student

NEW DELHI: A teacher of Daulat Ram College has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing and stalking a minor female student of the college.

The 17-year-old girl has alleged that the accused used inappropriate gestures and words and even threatened to fail her in the internal examinations if she resisted his alleged attempts at harassment.

The FIR was registered on January 31 after the girl approached the police with a complaint.

She alleged that the accused started teaching her batch from January and made inappropriate gestures towards her.

Her statement adds that on January 22, he touched her inappropriately in the college cafeteria and continued the same since then.

“He would send messages to me and ask me to meet him alone; he even stalked me. He demanded that I meet him outside the college when he was on leave, or he would fail me in the internal examinations,” the FIR reads.

Deputy commissioner of police (north) Jatin Narwal was unavailable for a comment. Another police officer, however, said that the accused was not arrested till Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, the college said that the accused was an ad hoc faculty.

“I have heard that there has been some complaint against a teacher. He is an ad hoc faculty. I will have more details only by Monday. The student did not complain to the college, otherwise I would have handled it there itself,” said the principal of Daulat Ram College, Savita Roy.

Roy also added that the faculty member in question had served for “a long time” in another North Campus College before joining Daulat Ram College, and she was unaware of any such complaint in the past about him.