Overview
- The university named Prof. Syed Tanveer Nasreen as chair with Prof. Subarna Kumar Das and Padmasree Kazi Masum Akhtar as members of the fact-finding panel.
- Deputy Registrar (Addl) Ujjwal Kumar Mondal was designated as the presenting officer for the proceedings.
- The complainant says an invigilator asked her to partially remove her hijab for a wireless headphone check, questioned her about wearing it, and found no device after a search in an adjacent room with the HOD and a female research scholar present.
- Faculty reject allegations of Islamophobia, citing tightened vigilance after at least four students were caught using wireless headphones, and note that other hijab-wearing students were not checked and a student in a hoodie was caught that day.
- Student groups filed demands for an inquiry and staged protests during the December 24 convocation, and the West Bengal Minorities Commission is expected to meet the vice-chancellor on December 30.