Overview
- Bengaluru police registered an FIR on Saturday under Sections 299 and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after reviewing a viral classroom video.
- PES University suspended adjunct faculty member Dr. Muralidhar Deshpande on Friday pending an internal inquiry by its disciplinary committee.
- The university says lectures are recorded and a technical team is checking the video's authenticity using classroom recordings and CCTV feeds.
- The incident occurred Tuesday during a BBA Analytics class, was filmed by a student, and spread online, prompting an NSUI complaint and condemnation from SIO.
- Complaints allege the professor called the student, Affan, a “terrorist” multiple times and made other slurs, while police are also examining claims of deleted CCTV footage and action against students who supported him.