Kozhikode’s Kunnamangalam police has booked the accused, Prof Shaija A, a senior faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT-Calicut, under IPC Section 153
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Kozhikode: A professor of the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C) was booked for her Facebook post, allegedly lending her support to Nathuram Godse for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi and saving India.
Kozhikode’s Kunnamangalam police has booked the accused, Prof Shaija A, a senior faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NIT-Calicut, under IPC Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with the intent to cause riot). Kerala’s ruling CPM’s student organisation SFI’s Kunnamangalam Area Committee Secretary Ashwin had filed a complaint in the matter, based on which the case was filed.
On January 30, which is observed as Martyrs’ Day to mark the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Prof Shaija posted on Facebook, “Proud of Godse for saving India”.
Her message was a comment to a post by Krishna Raj who posted Godse’s photograph with the words: “Hindu Mahasabha activist Nathuram Vinayak Godse. Hero of many people in India”.
Prof Shaija reportedly later deleted the post after it became controversial. As per report, there was unrest on the campus on January 22, the day the Ram temple was consecrated in Ayodhya.
A day after the professor’s post became public, CPM’s youth organisation DYFI, and student organisation SFI filed two complaints with Kunnamangalam police station, accusing the professor of committing ‘sedition’ by saying the assassin of Gandhi saved India.
“Not only that, her post was a deliberate attempt t
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