Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has expressed his anger over the incident of sexual harassment by a lab attendant at Kakinada Rangaraya Medical College. The Chief Minister has issued orders for strict action against the accused. He has ordered the officials to submit a report regarding this matter.
In this order, the medical and health department officials submitted a report to CM Chandrababu. On the 9th of this month, the students complained to the college principal against an employee named Kalyan Chakravarthy, who is working as a lab attendant at the medical college hospital.
Taking the incident seriously, the principal, Dr. Vishnu Vardhan, appointed a committee on the same day and conducted an inquiry into it. The inquiry committee spoke to the students till Thursday night and prepared a report. The inquiry revealed that along with Chakravarthy, three others had also harassed the medical students.
Based on the report, the CM has issued orders for action against the staff involved in sexual harassment. On the other hand, the authorities have suspended four people who were involved in sexual harassment of female medical students. Orders have been issued suspending lab attendant Kalyan Chakravarthy and lab technicians Jimmy Raju, Gopala Krishna and Prasad.
A police case has been registered against the four. Kakinada GGH officials have also sent a report on the incident and the actions taken to Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Meanwhile, a stir is brewing among female students at Rangaraya Medical College over the incident.
A lab assistant and another employee have committed lewd acts against female students of B.Sc. and Lab Technology courses. The female students have expressed their grief that they were shown hell by performing disgusting acts such as touching their bodies indecently and pinching their cheeks.
Apart from this, the students complained to the college principal on the 9th of this month that he would take indecent photos and send them on WhatsApp while they were busy with their duties, threaten them to come to their rooms, and extort money.
During an internal investigation into this, 50 students expressed their grievances before the committee that some staff members in the microbiology, pathology, and biochemistry departments had behaved indecently towards them.
