Kathmandu, July 10Police have yet to trace the whereabouts of Jagadish Murti Koirala, a teacher of economics at the Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, who has been accused of sexually harassing a female student.We are still searching for Koirala,& said Cheddi Lal Kamati, deputy superintendent of police at Metropolitan Police Circle.Metropolitan Police Circle in Swoyambhu, Kalimati, and District Police Office Palpa have been directed to carry out search operation for the arrest of Koirala, according to DSP Kamati.The Department of Education has also failed to contact Koirala.
&Koirala had said that he had to leave for Rupandehi district to attend funeral rites of his aunt.
He had also said that he would be back by July 2.
But he is no more in contact with us.
The department will take action against him if he fails to show up at the university in next few days,& said Deep Bahadur Adhikari, head of the Central Department of Education.The teacher was found repeatedly calling the female student, sending her lewd text messages, and asking her to meet him in private, despite frequent warnings by the student not to do so.Sexual Harassment at Workplace (elimination) Act-2015, includes a provision where a victim shall file a complaint against the perpetrator, first at the office of the department head and shall move to the respective chief district officer for justice if no action is taken regarding the complaint, within fifteen days of the registration of such complaint.A person found guilty of committing sexual crime as per the act can be slapped with six months in prison and fine& said Advocate Meera Dhungana.Workplace activities motivated with sexual intent including eve-easing, inappropriate physical touching, using/demonstrating/publishing sexual words, objects, pictures, audio-visuals or other vulgar and seductive materials and proposing for sexual activities at workplace have been termed as sexual harassment at workplace.The post Police clueless about accused TU teacher appeared first on The Himalayan Times.