NIT Professor’s ‘Proud of Godse’ Comment: ABVP Stages March Seeking Action

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the scholar organisation of the BJP on Monday staged a protest march to the Nationwide Institute of Know-how-Calicut right here, searching for motion in opposition to the lady professor who had allegedly glorified Mahatma Gandhi’s murderer Nathuram Godse. Professor A Shaija of NIT had been booked by police on Saturday for her Fb remark “expressing delight” in Nathuram Godse for “saving India”.

ABVP activists marched to the establishment and burnt an effigy of Godse. ABVP leaders sought motion in opposition to the professor saying she posted an insulting remark in opposition to the Mahatma. “The professor posted one thing which is insulting the Father of the nation and praising Godse who assassinated him,” a pupil chief mentioned whereas addressing the ABVP activists.

Shaija, a senior college member of the Division of Mechanical Engineering at NIT right here, posted a touch upon Fb on January 30 saying “Pleased with Godse for saving India.” She was commenting on a publish by a lawyer, Krishna Raj, who posted Godse’s {photograph} captioning it Hindu Mahasabha activist Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a hero of many in India. A number of complaints have been lodged in opposition to Professor Shaija in a number of police stations within the metropolis by numerous pupil organisations, together with SFI, KSU and MSF, following which an FIR was registered in opposition to her.

IPC Part 153 (wantonly giving provocation with the intent to trigger riot) was invoked in opposition to the professor. Kunnamangalam and Nadakkavu police stations have been amongst these the place complaints have been filed in opposition to her.

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