NIIFT Professor arrested for obscene SMSes !

Indo-Asian News Service
Mohali, December 15, 2006

A professor at a fashion technology institute here was arrested on Thursday for allegedly sending obscene SMSes to girl students.

K. Krishnamurthy, the head of the textile design course at the government-run Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology (NIIFT), was arrested after some girl students alleged that he used to send them vulgar SMSes.

Police said the professor has been booked for obscenity and for outraging the modesty of a woman. He has been charged under the information technology act as well.

In their complaint to the institute authorities, the girls alleged the teacher used to send them messages expressing his love and even telephoned some of them to express his love.

They alleged that he used to come drunk to the institute sometimes and passed cheap remarks.

The teacher, who was suspended after some students went on strike on Thursday, said that he was not at fault and a few disgruntled students had raked up the charges against him as they had not done well and fallen short of lectures.

He claimed the girls had also been sending him messages on his mobile phone. He said the messages sent by him were as an "advice" to the students.

NIIFT director Vijay Sharma told reporters he had never before received any complaint against the professor.

Students take out procession in support of Sidhu, would launch an SMS campaign

Monday, December 04, 2006

Source: IANS

Chandigarh: Over 100 students took out a silent candlelight procession in the city to support cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was convicted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday for causing the death of a person in a road rage case.

The youths, who took out the procession at the city's famous landmark - Sukhna Lake, said they would launch an SMS campaign to garner support for Sidhu on Monday.

"He has been successful as a cricketer and now as a politician. We need clean people like him. The Patiala incident was an unintentional aberration and he should not be treated like a criminal for that," said Ajmer Singh.

Others in the procession said Sidhu had displayed rare character by immediately resigning from his Lok Sabha seat after his conviction by the High Court.

Sidhu had on Saturday resigned as Lok Sabha MP.

The High Court here will commence hearing on Wednesday for announcing the quantum of his sentence.

Sidhu has been charged of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and could face up to 10 years in prison.

Supporters of Sidhu in Punjab's cities of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala also prayed for him.

Indo-Asian News Service