NIT-Calicut Professor's Facebook Post Lauds Godse ‘For Saving India’, Case Filed (image:Facebook)

Police has registered case against professor at the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C) for lauding Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, on her Facebook comment. On January 30, on the anniversary of Gandhi”s martyrdom, Shaija Andavan, a senior faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering department, wrote “proud of Godse for saving India” in the comment section of a Facebook post put out by a lawyer named Krishna Raj. The advocate who known for his Hindutva stance has posted Godse”s photograph and wrote in Malayalam, “Hindu Mahasabha activist Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a hero of many in India.”

As the Facebook post erupted controversy, Professor has deleted the comment.

Shaija told to The News Minute: “I didn’t put much thought into it when I first commented. I had read the book ‘Why I killed Gandhi’ and felt that some of the points mentioned in it were true. Hence I made the comment. But now, I feel I shouldn’t have and hence I deleted the comment”.

Following several complaints lodged by various student bodies, The Kerala Police registered a case under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with the intent to cause riot) against the Professor.

The NIT-C has recently been in the news as a fourth-year engineering student from the institute was suspended earlier this week as he, along with a group of students, protested a section of students celebrating the Ram temple consecration inside the campus.  The fourth-year B-Tech student named Vyshak Premkumar has been suspended for a year in the name of “unlawful gathering” that resulted in “campus unrest”.

However, the massive protests by the student community resulted in putting the suspension on hold, which is under consideration by the Internal Complaints Committee. The institute was closed for three days on February 2.