In a shocking incident, a professor of a reputed university in Kolkata in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal was allegedly forced to quit from her post after a parent of one of her students complained to the institution's authorities about her pictures in swimsuit that were on display on her Instagram account. She was also asked to pay a sum of Rs 99 crore (£10.3 million) for damanging the reputation of the institution.
According to reports, the student's father said he found his son looking at the pictures of the professor and wrote to the authorities of the St Xavier's University saying he was "appalled" and accused the professor of posing in a "sexually explicit way causing deliberate public exposure".
NDTV reported that the father wrote to the university saying, "Recently, I was appalled to find my son looking at some pictures of professor...where she has posed in a sexually explicit way causing deliberate public exposure."
"To look at a teacher dressed in her undergarments uploading pictures on social media is utterly shameful for me as a parent, since I have tried to shield my son from this kind of gross indecency and objectification of the female body...It is obscene, vulgar and improper for a 18-year-old student to see his professor dressed in scanty clothes exhibiting her body on a public platform," he added.
The university thereafter asked the professor to pay the money.
The professor, who was sacked in October last year, said in an interview with the Indian Express that she was "intimidated, bullied and taunted with sexually coloured remarks" by the university authorities. She also filed a petition with the Calcutta High Court against her forceful resignation.
She also said that the university formed a committee and investigated the matter and when she met the committee, she was showed printouts of her pictures which she alleged were taken without her permission, News18 reported.
The teacher also said that she had uploaded the photos before joining the university and tried to explain that somebody had taken screenshots and circulated the images, News18 report added. She also said that when she tried to explain it to the university officials, nobody believed her.
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