New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Sunday intervened in the St Stephen's harassment row and assigned University Grants Commision in-charge of Delhi university to check the progress in the case with the internal complaints committee (ICC) of the college.
The HRD Ministry has asked UGC to ensure the probe is completed by college's Internal Complaints Committee "expeditiously" and "impartially".
The research scholar had initially approached the ICC with her grievances. It was only when she realised that she wasn't getting justice she filed a police complaint.
The UGC has been asked by HRD ministry to talk to the members of ICC and file a report on why no action was taken in the case.
Meanwhile, St Stephen's principal Valson Thampu has once again refuted the allegations and the claims made by the complainant. "I have not heard about any tapes which has telephonic conversation between me and complainant. If these tapes were important why it was not been submitted to police as a proof," said Thampu.
Thampu has said that controversies are being manufactured against the college with malafide intentions. He also added that the victim was being influenced by certain individuals.
A research scholar, who has alleged she was molested by a college professor and Thampu had tried to shield the accused, approached police last week with four recordings that she claimed to have made during her meetings with the principal where he had allegedly pressured her to withdraw the complaint.
The complainant had approached police on June 19 alleging she was molested by Satish Kumar, an assistant professor in college's Chemistry Department. She had also accused Thampu of "criminally intimidating" her to give a written application to him expressing her consent to close the matter in college itself in order to not cause any delay or problems in completion of her PhD".
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