Tanda Medical College HOD of Biochemistry gets imprisonment for outraging student's modesty
Shimla: A court at Kangra in Himachal Pradesh has convicted and sentenced a medical college professor to imprisonment for a year in an outrage of modesty case.
The Professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry, Dr Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda, was also sentenced to undergo imprisonment for two months for wrongful confinement under Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. All the sentences would run concurrently.
An FIR for commission of offences punishable under Sections 342 and 354 of the IPC was registered on January 17, 2008, at Kangra police station.
It was alleged that Yadav wrongfully restrained the complainant student "in such a manner so as to prevent her from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits. Thereafter, the accused used criminal force intending to outrage and outraged the modesty of informant".
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