Harassment charge: Professor uses Bumble to teach, booked
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 31 December 2023 | The Telegraph
A woman professor at a private university in Haryana who had expressed concerns about Right-wing activism on the campus has been booked for alleged sexual harassment of female students after she used a dating app as a teaching tool to explain gender issues.
The Haryana State Commission for Women got the police case registered against Sameena Dalwai, professor at the Jindal Global Law School of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat.
The development has left several academics and students worried about what they see as an increasing threat to academic freedom.
Dalwai had on September 23 taken the help of students to create a profile on the dating app Bumble with an imaginary name, hoping to analyse the responses received and their references to caste, class, sexuality and religion. However, some students circulated videos of the experiment on social media.