Jodhpur, Sept. 4 -- An associate professor of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur was arrested on Wednesday allegedly following a violent clash with the institute's director, police said. Commissioner of police Om Prakash said that cross FIRs have been filed over the incident, which took place on Tuesday inside the Chanakya West administrative block of IIT Jodhpur. "On the basis of preliminary investigation, associate professor Dr Deepak Arora has been arrested," he said. According to the first complaint, lodged by IIT Jodhpur's officiating registrar Ankur Gupta, Arora allegedly abused and assaulted director Dr Avinash Kumar Agarwal during a departmental meeting in the presence of a few senior faculty members. The complaint said that Arora allegdly kicked the director, and prevented him from leaving the office, causing an injury to his right foot. When other staff members intervened, Arora reportedly assaulted them as well and hurled caste-based slurs at an employee, Vivek Gautam, who sustained an injury to his right hand. Based on Gupta's complaint, he has been booked under Sections 121(1) (causing grievous hurt) and 132 (assault/criminal force) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. In a counter-complaint, Arora accused Agarwal and his associates of assaulting him, wrongfully confining him, and obstructing official work. Based on Arora's complaint, a first information report (FIR) has been registered under Sections 121(1) (causing grievous hurt), 132 (assault/criminal force), 127(2) (wrongful confinement) and other relevant sections of the BNS. Police said that further investigation in both cases is underway. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur have developed a suite of indigenous AI technologies to address challenges unique to India's multilingual and multicultural landscape. From open-source tools that read text in 13 Indian languages to deep learning methods for restoring ancient manuscripts and advanced models for video understanding, the work is aimed at accessibility. The projects are being led by Prof Anand Mishra, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, who heads the institute's Vision, Language and Learning Group (VL2G). His team is part of the Government of India's flagship Bhashini initiative and has already deployed APIs capable of recognizing text in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese, Odia, Manipuri, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. These tools can power real-time translation of signboards, assist navigation, and make digital platforms more accessible for millions of Indian users. In another project, the group is collaborating with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and TIH-iHUB Drishti to digitally restore and preserve ancient manuscripts in Sanskrit, Pali, Telugu and other languages. Using deep learning-based computer vision, they are enhancing deteriorated texts and creating OCR systems to digitize them, ensuring long-term preservation and availability for translation and research....