Saraswati Medical College Professor sacked After Students Protest alleging Indecent Advances
Unnao: A professor at Saraswati Medical College, Unnao, was recently dismissed after the medical students accused him of making indecent advances and pressuring them into relationships.
It is reported that initially, despite the students' complaints to the principal of the medical college, no action was taken. Then the students launched a protest and announced a boycott of the internal examinations. Last Thursday, the protesting students burnt an effigy of the professor.
Consequently, the medical college administration took action, and an order was issued dismissing the concerned professor, Patrika has reported.
Unnao-based Saraswati Medical College is a private medical institute under the aegis of Saraswati Group of Educational Institutes. There are 150 MBBS seats available at the institute.
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As per the latest media report by Patrika, recently, more than a dozen medical students at the medical college alleged that the concerned professor made indecent advances towards them and pressured them into relationships. The students claimed to have recordings and messages as evidence and the same have been submitted to the college administration.
The Daily has reported that the concerned accused professor is also the examination controller and a professor of the physiology department. Even though the students complained to the Principal about the matter, initially, no action was taken. However, after the students initiated a protest and decided to boycott the internal examinations, the accused was dismissed.
Confirming this, Dr. Aryan Srivastava, the Principal of the medical college, stated that after a preliminary investigation into the students' complaint, the professor was suspended and subsequently dismissed.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that back in 2021, observing intentional violation on part of the medical college towards the norms laid by the erstwhile Medical Council of India, MCI (now NMC), the Supreme Court had slapped a fine of Rs 5 crore on the Saraswati Education Charitable Trust for admitting 132 MBBS students without seeking a nod from the Director General Medical Education (UP DGME). The Apex Court had also directed the National Medical Commission to create a trust with this money for assistance to needy students in Uttar Pradesh.
