Two women professors, including the principal and a faculty member of a Hyderabad engineering college, have lodged a police complaint against Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) vice-chancellor T Kishen Kumar Reddy, alleging that he made derogatory, gender-discriminatory and intimidating remarks against them, police said.
Principal of Vidya Jyothy Institute of Technology (VJIT) A Srujana and professor and head of the department of computer science engineering in the same college D Aruna Kumari lodged a complaint with the Kukatpally Housing Board (KPHB) police. “We have received the complaint from the women professors, but had not registered an FIR yet. They requested the police to take necessary legal action against Prof Reddy.
We are making enquiries into the veracity of the complaint and we shall book the case, if the allegations are prima facie proved,” KPHB inspector of police G Vijay Kumar said. The women faculty members said the alleged conduct was unbecoming of the head of a major technical university and violated their dignity.
