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The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) protested outside St Stephen’s college over a series of Facebook posts by its principal Valson Thampu in which he gave a clean chit to a professor accused of sexually harassing a research scholar.
In his most recent Facebook post, Thampu claimed he only “stood by a disabled colleague who was hounded precisely because he was upright and incorruptible”.
In a separate post, he used terms like “I curse you” and “monster” to describe a particular “teacher” who is, according to him, behind “concocting” the sexual harassment charges against the accused.
John demanded that Thampu be removed immediately.
President of DUTA Nandita Narain said:
Abha Dev Habib, a member of the Executive Council of Delhi University, said, “What transpired in Rohith Vermula’s suicide case and the case of three students killing themselves in Tamil Nadu was an indirect result of irresponsible behavior by the heads of institutions of the respective colleges. Have we learnt nothing from these incidents? We must make sure that such a horror doesn’t repeat itself and Thampu is removed.”
The Delhi Commission for Women had last month taken cognizance of Thampu’s controversial Facebook posts and issued him a show-cause notice
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