The police have arrested a assistant professor IIT Jodhpur for alleged abuse and man handing of the institution during a department meeting, officials said on Thursday.
The teacher was released on bail. Later in the evening, however, the IIT administration suspended the teacher.
A dispute between director Avinash Kumar Agrawal and university professor Deepak Kumar Arora (Chemical Engineering) broke out during the meeting on Wednesday morning. It led to heated arguments between the two. The verbal spit soon became violent when Arora Agrawal attacked. Both were injured in the incident.
Station House Officer (SHO) Lekhraj Siyag said that both the director and the professor have submitted against each other against each other, and an investigation has started.
“Registrar Ankur Gupta has filed a complaint on behalf of director Avinash Kumar Agrawal against university teacher Deepak Kumar Arora, accused him of abuse, the hindering of the public work, and the use of caste-related loringen to insult him. The complaint states that Arora attacking director. Siyag said.
On the other hand, Arora also filed a FIR against the director and his employees, and accused them of unlawful imprisonment, obstruction of official tasks and abuse.
According to sources, when the staff of the director of the director tried to intervene, Arora also attacked an employee who sustained an injury to his arm. He reportedly used caste-based statements against him and threatened to eliminate him and his family.
The sources said that the violent eruption of Arora was fueled when the director complained about the non-performance of his department in the past five years.
Arora, however, opposed and said that even the IIT had not reached a milestone under his stewardship since his accession as director of the institution.
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