Non-Bailable Warrant Against 3 UP Professors Over 'Casteist Slurs': Cops
A non-bailable warrant has been issued against a professor and two former professors of the Allahabad University following a complaint from an assistant professor, police said here on Monday. Deepshikha Sonkar, the assistant professor in the department of economics, got a case lodged in August 2016 against the then head of the department, Professor Prahlad Kumar, Professor Manmohan Krishna and Professor Javed Akhtar under sections 354C (voyeurism), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at the Karnalganj police station. Assistant Commissioner of Police Shivkuti Rajesh Kumar Yadav said a non-bailable warrant has been issued against the three professors. In her complaint to the police, the assistant professor had said Mr Kumar, Mr Krishna and Mr Akhtar had hurled casteist slurs at her and had also exploit...