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IIT Kharagpur files case against Professor

New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur has filed a criminal case against one of its professors for associating himself with an education centre that allegedly had falsely claimed to be an affiliate of the Institute.

An FIR has been lodged against office-bearers of the Institution of Electrical Engineering (IEE), the centre running adjacent to the IIT campus, which also includes Prof. Amit Kumar Ghosh, accusing them of fraud, IIT sources said.

IIT Kharagpur had suspended Prof. Ghosh last month and conducted an internal investigation after IEE students lodged a complaint with the IIT Director Damodar Acharya alleging that Prof. Ghosh was charging exorbitant fees for admission to IEE.

Prof. Ghosh had violated the code of conduct as a faculty member cannot associate with any institute without the permission of IIT, they said.

Prof. Ghosh was also charged with holding IEE examinations inside the IIT campus, sources said.

IIT Kharagpur in a statement released on Tuesday had said it has not affiliated IEE and documents supporting its recognition were “forged”. It said “the sequence of events makes one believe a section of the people associated with so-called IEE (India) have deliberately tried to involve the name of IIT Kharagpur to cash in on its goodwill.” - PTI

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