SFI takes out rally in DU campus

Over students of SFI today took out a rally across Delhi University campus to demand regular elections in anti-sexual harassment committees of all colleges in the wake of self-immolation of a former employee of B R Ambedkar College here.
Despite the suspension of the college's principal G K Arora, students and teachers have continued to stage protests and demonstrations to demand justice for 35-year-old Pavitra Bhardwaj, a former lab assistant of the college.
Bhardwaj, who immolated herself on September 30 and succumbed to her injuries on October 7, alleged sexual and mental harassment by Arora and another staff member. She was sacked from the college two years ago.

Over 100 students under the aegis of Students' Federation of India (SFI) took out a rally around the campus this morning to press their demands which include the arrest of Arora, the suspended principal of B R Ambedkar college.
"It is baffling to think that though Pavitra had filed about 150 complaints against Arora at various levels and had been doing so since 2009 but there was no inquiry in the matter.
"This incident, as also many before this, has shown the urgent need to take cases of sexual harassment seriously, which the university and its administration have failed to do at any point in time," SFI President Sumeet Tanwar said.

Arora was suspended from the post of principal of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College on October 11 till the completion of a judicial probe into the self-immolation of Bhardwaj.
Delhi government had on October 9 ordered a judicial probe into self-immolation by Bhardwaj on September 30 at gate number 6 of Delhi Secretariat.