Plea to Quash SC/ST Act Case Against Ex-Visva Bharati VC Over Discriminatory Remarks Rejected: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has refused to quash criminal proceedings filed under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against Professor Bidyut Chakraborty, former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, and Mahua Banerjee, then in-charge of Public Relations at the university. The allegations stem from a complaint filed by Dr. Prashan Meshram, a university employee from the Scheduled Caste community, who accused the senior officials…