St. Stephen’s College principal Valson Thampu, who has been under attack for months for allegedly shielding a professor accused of molesting a research scholar, asserted on Friday that supporting the teacher is the most “heroic” thing he has ever done.
While Prof. Thampu had maintained in past that the allegations against him are part of a “constructed controversy” by a few “vested interests,” he had publicly supported the professor earlier this week saying the complaint was a “diabolic lie.”
“One of the HEROIC things I have ever done in my life is to have stood by Satish Kumar who was, I was absolutely convinced, framed maliciously, without any basis whatsoever, in the infamous and inhuman sexual harassment case.
“I did not ‘shield a harasser,’ instead, I stood by a disabled colleague who was being hounded precisely because he was upright and incorruptible. Had I let him down, I would have died in shame. He was being hounded worse than a deer chased by a tiger,” he said in a Facebook post.
The female student had approached the police in July, alleging she was molested by Prof. Kumar, a chemistry professor with 85 per cent disability. She had also accused Prof. Thampu of “shielding” the assistant professor when the matter was reported to him.
