New Delhi: Delhi Police Wednesday registered a case against a former Delhi professor under section 283 and 34 of the IPC for selling pakodas right outside the Arts Faculty at a stall named 'PhD Pakkode Wali' thereby causing problems to passersby.
Dr Ritu Singh, formerly an ad-hoc assistant professor at Delhi University's Daulat Ram College, started this stall after the demolition of her protest site where she demanded justice for alleged caste-based discrimination and harassment, leading to her termination in 2020.
Morris Nagar Police Station received information regarding the stall after which the Station House Officer, sub inspector and the staff rushed to the Gate Number 4 of the Art Faculty. The police asked Dr Singh to remove the street vendors from the footpath but she revolted, denying the order.
Dr Singh along with some of his colleagues fried pakodas at the stall. When Dr Singh was fired from her job in 2020, her academic career took an unexpected turn, which she attributes to caste-based discrimination. She posted a video of selling pakodas at the stall on her official X handle.
She has earlier spoken out against casteism in educational institutions as a Dalit and an Ambedkarite campaigner. In an effort to bring attention to and challenge the purported injustice, Dr Singh began a series of protests against Dr Savita Roy, the college principal, after she was fired.
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