A group of students of Gurucharan College in Silchar, Assam, on Friday registered a first information report against their physics teacher ...
A group of students of Gurucharan College in Silchar, Assam, on Friday registered a first information report against their physics teacher for allegedly posting derogatory remarks about the prime minister, reported local news portal Barak Bulletin.
The students, who filed the FIR at Silchar Sadan police station, have alleged that guest lecturer Souradeep Sengupta’s social media posts had allegedly hurt the sentiments of those belonging to a particular religious community. “...Souradeep Sengupta...has made derogatory remarks and abused the ‘Sanatan Dharma’ as a whole,” the complaint read. “He has also alleged the prime minister of the nation [w]as a mass murder and tried to incite communal violence by making inflammatory comments against the Hindu community, in the context of the recent Delhi violence.”
The students also submitted a complaint with the college authorities and called for Sengupta’s immediate termination. The letter claimed that Sengupta had blamed the Hindu community for being responsible for the communal violence in Delhi that has claimed 42 lives. Images of the FIR and the letter to the college was shared on social media by Karanjit Deb, whose Facebook profile said he was the Silchar city secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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