Kolkata Professor Forced To Quit Allegedly Over Swimsuit Pic On Instagram
NDTV
In a letter to St Xavier's University, Kolkata, the student's father said, "Recently, I was appalled to find my son looking at some pictures of professor...where she has posed in a sexually explicit way causing deliberate public exposure."
A professor of St Xavier's University in Kolkata was forced to quit after the father of an undergraduate student complained to the university that the professor wore a swimsuit in an Instagram post, which he said "appalled" him on finding his son looking at the photo. Reports say the university has asked the professor to pay Rs 99 crore for damaging their reputation.
The matter has generated intense debate on social media about invasion of the professor's privacy, whose Instagram profile was private, and punishing her instead of questioning alleged hacking of her account and how a woman's private photo from a locked profile ended up on the hands of the undergraduate. The professor has alleged either the account was hacked or someone with profile access took a screenshot of the photo and circulated it, which would come under sexual harassment.
In the letter, the student's father said, "Recently, I was appalled to find my son looking at some pictures of professor...where she has posed in a sexually explicit way causing deliberate public exposure."
"To look at a teacher dressed in her undergarments uploading pictures on social media is utterly shameful for me as a parent, since I have tried to shield my son from this kind of gross indecency and objectification of the female body...It is obscene, vulgar and improper for a 18-year-old student to see his professor dressed in scanty clothes exhibiting her body on a public platform," the student's father wrote in the complaint to St Xavier's University.
