The principal and different officers of a south Mumbai academic institute allegedly obtained three emails from an unidentified individual levelling allegations towards its professors and demeaning the modesty of its ladies staffers.
The police registered a case within the matter and initiated a probe.
Police stated that within the emails, the sender claimed that the professors weren’t desirous about educating and that they solely come to speak to ladies and feminine staffers.
Based on police officers, the emails have been obtained by the institute on July 12, 2023, and September 20 and 23, 2024.
The officers stated that within the first electronic mail, obtained on July 12 final yr, the sender posed as a feminine employees member of the faculty and claimed {that a} male professor calls and sends textual content messages to ladies employees at night time. The sender requested the administration to put in CCTV cameras for the protection of the ladies.
The officers from the institute didn’t take any cognisance of the e-mail, as they believed it was a prank dedicated by somebody. Nevertheless, the principal and the faculty’s administration obtained one other electronic mail at 11:32 am on September 20, the place the sender posed as a first-year pupil of the faculty and claimed that the professors will not be desirous about educating and that the standard of training has declined.
“The e-mail additionally defamed a male professor of the institute and threatened to complain to Shiv Sena and name for a protest over such low high quality of training,” an officer stated.
Later, when the institute obtained one other electronic mail on September 23, the principal and a male professor reported the matter to the police station, after which a case was registered beneath Part 79 (deliberately insulting a lady’s modesty) and Part 356(2) (defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), in addition to Part 67(A) of the IT Act.
“We now have registered an offense, and in an try and hint the suspect. We now have began scrutinizing the IP addresses of the e-mail accounts from which the harassment emails have been despatched,” an investigator stated.
