Visva-Bharati issues second show-cause notice to professor who filed FIR against Vice-Chancellor

Professor Manas Maity of Physics department had lodged an FIR against Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty at Santiniketan police station on June 12.

The Visva-Bharati University has issued a second show-cause notice to a professor, who had lodged an FIR against the Vice-Chancellor, asking him to explain how he could make statements to the media about the case against the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Manas Maity of Physics department had lodged an FIR against Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty at Santiniketan police station on June 12 for allegedly insulting and humiliating him and some other faculty members by making some “unsavoury comments” against them at the meeting. The Central university on Monday asked Mr. Maity to explain how he could make statement about filing of the FIR against the V-C. The varsity said such comments by the concerned “is scurrilous and prejudicial” against the interest of Visva-Bharati.