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The Principal and a mathematics lecturer of Swami Arupananda College in Kurtanga, Jagatsinghpur, have been suspended and booked under the POCSO Act following allegations of sexual harassment brought by a second-year science student.
Acting on the directive of the Jagatsinghpur District Collector, the Sub-Collector Prashant Kumar Tarai lodged a formal complaint at Jagatsinghpur Police Station.
The FIR, later transferred to Raghunathpur Police Station, under whose jurisdiction the college falls, names lecturer Shashwat Mahanti and Principal Ramesh Chandra Sahu. Both have since been suspended for suppressing and mishandling the co...