Team Herald
PANJIM: Based on a complaint from Goa University, Agassaim police have lodged an FIR against Assistant Professor of Physics Pranav Naik, who is accused of leaking a question paper to one of the girl students at the university.
According to a statement issued by the university, police have been asked to inquire into “unauthorised unlawful activities carried out by him (Naik)”.
In the FIR, Naik has been charged under various Sections dealing with forgery with the intent to cheating, trespass, house-breaking and cheating-based on the complaint filed by S N Dhuri, Registrar of Goa University.
In his police complaint, Professor Dhuri alleged that Naik made duplicate keys of the cabins of multiple faculty members without their consent and unlawfully entered the cabins without permission, breaching their privacy and security and also helping one girl student in the exams and thereby cheating other students.
Earlier in the day, a statement issued by the university said: "The university had constituted a fact-finding committee to submit a prima facie report on the alleged matter.”
“And based on the report submitted by the committee, the University has lodged a complaint before the Police Inspector, Agassaim Police Station, to register an FIR against Dr Pranav Naik to investigate further on the unauthorised unlawful activities carried out by him," the university stated.
The statement also clarified that the university’s Executive Council would decide on taking appropriate disciplinary action against the teacher at its meeting in the last week of March.
On Thursday, the government had stepped in to take over the inquiry into the alleged paper leak.