Kolhapur lecturer ‘forced’ to go on leave for saying rapists ‘can be from any religion’
Prateek Goyal | 30 June 2023 | Newslaundry
Photo: Kartik Kakar
When college professor Tejaswini Desai told her first-year class that perpetrators of rape can be from any religion or community, she never imagined that the consequences would include being questioned by the police and a hate campaign on social media.
But this is precisely what happened this month to the 52-year-old physics professor at the Kolhapur Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering.