A professor of Mahatma Gandhi Central University was allegedly beaten up by group of young people for sharing a Facebook post that was critical of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away on Thursday.
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Regional news channel broadcasted a video that showed group of young people beating Sanjay Kumar, the professor, out of his Azad Nagar residence in Motihari town, stripping, thrashing and dragging him.
Superintendent of Police, East Champaran, Upendra Kumar Sharma, said Kumar in a complaint mentioned about a social media post which has since been reportedly deleted.
According to the reports, the professor had put the Facebook post questioning Vajpayee’s political ideology. He expressed apprehension that “campus rivalry” could be the reason behind the attack on him, as he had been “speaking against a number of influential faculty members and the university administration”. A thorough investigation would clear the picture. At present, we are trying to identify the attackers and arrest them, Sharma said.
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Former Deputy Chief of Bihar, Tejashawi Yadav, criticising the situation tweeted “What is this going on Mr CM? RSS goons in direct patronage of RSS programmed VC assaulted & almost Lynched a Professor, they poured patrol to burn him alive. Nitish ji, why don’t you open an RSS shakha and be the ‘sarsanghchalak’ of it.”