The registrar of IIT-Madras in an email to the students said that a committee headed by former Tamil Nadu DGP, Tilakavathi has been constituted on the allegations in the suicide death of Sachin Kumar Jain who was a research scholar in Mechanical Engineering department.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras has constituted a five-member committee to probe into the suicide of a research scholar of the institute, Sachin Kumar Jain on March 31, 2023.
Research scholar Sachin Kumar Jain was found dead in his room in Velachery on March 31, the third suicide at IIT-Madras in the last two months. Serious accusations emerged against Sachin's PhD guide, a senior professor with high academic credentials.
Woman faculty member was verbally terminated from service
The Tamil Nadu State Commission for Women has directed Loyola College, Chennai, to immediately pay ₹64.3 lakh, with interest, to a senior woman faculty member, who was allegedly harassed by a Jesuit Father and verbally terminated from service.
The amount includes back wages, damages for mental agony and “unkind words of sexual harassment” and compensation for a false complaint.
“The Commission found that her track record was very good and there was no reason for terminating her service. It is very clear that Loyola College has abruptly stopped her from work deliberately,” said an order passed by Commission chairperson Kannegi Packianathan on December 22. “For the kind of trauma and physical and sexual abuse she has been submitted to, she has to be adequately compensated, expeditiously,” it said.