The Bengaluru police on Friday registered a primary info report (FIR) towards Indian Institute of Administration (IIM) Bangalore director Rishikesha T Krishanan, dean (college) Dinesh Kumar and 6 different college members over allegations of caste discrimination towards a Dalit affiliate professor on the identical establishment.
The FIR was registered on the Mico Structure Police Station on the instructions of the Karnataka Social Welfare Division (KSWD), issued on December 9 after an inquiry by the Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement (DCRE) on November 26 indicted the establishment of caste-based harassment and denial of equal alternatives to Das.
An inner inquiry by IIM-Bangalore has denied the allegations and known as them unfounded.
Within the FIR, a replica of which is with HT, the eight IIM officers have been charged underneath sections 3(1)(r) (insult or intimidation of an SC/ST individual) and three(1)(s) (abusing SC/ST individual by caste title) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 2014, and part 351 (2) (prison intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
HT reached out to the institute in regards to the FIR however didn’t get a response until the time of print.
In January, affiliate professor Gopal Das lodged a grievance with President Droupadi Murmu throughout her go to to the institute, alleging discrimination, denial of truthful promotions, and harassment as a consequence of his Scheduled Caste identification. He alleged he was excluded from institutional actions, pressured to withdraw elective programs and PhD programmes, denied entry to assets, and humiliated by being known as belonging to a “decrease caste.”
DCRE submitted its investigation report on November 26 confirming allegations of caste-based discrimination at IIM-Bangalore. In its report, which HT has seen, the company discovered that the director of IIM-Bangalore intentionally publicised Das’s caste by “mass electronic mail” and alleged “denial of equal alternative to the petitioner within the office setting”. It additionally discovered “non-conformity to the statutory want to determine the institutional mechanism to redress the grievances of the scheduled caste and the scheduled tribes by the IIM, Bangalore”.
The report was signed by Rakesh Kumar Krishna Murthy, the commissioner of the Social Welfare Division, Bengaluru.
In a press release issued on Thursday, IIM-Bangalore had denied the allegations and mentioned that its Range and Inclusion Grievance Redressal Committee had investigated the fees.
“Das’s allegations of discrimination towards the Institute and its college got here up solely when his utility for promotion was placed on maintain due to complaints of harassment lodged by some doctoral college students towards him. An enquiry performed by IIMB as per the principles, with the committee together with a reputed tutorial from the SC class from an eminent establishment, discovered that the scholars’ complaints have been justified. The DIGRC discovered Dr. Das’s complaints of harassment and discrimination to be unfounded,” the institute’s assertion had mentioned.
Das didn’t remark regardless of repeated makes an attempt by HT.