Overview
- A 22-year-old NSU student from Odisha alleged sexual harassment and blackmail with intimate visuals by an assistant professor, leading her to leave the university.
- The university’s internal committee concluded the charges were true and recommended a police referral, and investigators confiscated the phones of both accused faculty members.
- Tirupati West police registered an FIR on December 6 under BNS provisions for sexual harassment, voyeurism, insulting the modesty of a woman, and criminal intimidation.
- Assistant professor Laxman Kumar is named in the FIR, the complaint also mentions Shekar Reddy, and NSU has suspended the faculty based on the internal committee’s findings.
- YSR Congress and Congress MPs plan adjournment motions today, with national bodies and the Union Education Minister notified, as police move to record the student’s statement.