Trouble deepens for IIT-Bombay! Student files police complaint against professor for inviting Pro Hamas supporter Sudhanva Deshpande
Supekar has reportedly filed a complaint seeking action against Professor Sharmishtha Saha. It is alleged that Prof Shah invited Sudhanva Deshpande to conduct the lecture. Notably, Deshpande is an actor/director associated with Jana Natya Manch and is seen as a radical leftist.
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It seems like supporting the Hamas terrorists has landed IIT Bombay in big trouble, as students of the institute has filed a police complaint for allegedly extending an invitation to another pro-Hamas activist Sudhanva Deshpande to give a talk at the institute.
The FIR has filed against the Professor Sharmishtha Saha, who had organised the 'Anti-Semitism' lecture in the institution. The Prof Saha of IIT Bombay invited Sudhanva Deshpande under the pretext of the Course ‘Performance Theory & Praxis’.
Supekar has reportedly filed a complaint seeking action against Professor Sharmishtha Saha. It is alleged that Prof Shah invited Sudhanva Deshpande to conduct the lecture. Notably, Deshpande is an actor/director associated with Jana Natya Manch and is seen as a radical leftist.
It is alleged that Deshpande supported Hamas and terrorists during the talk. Highlighting this, the complainant has sought action against him. The lecture reportedly was given on Monday (6th November 6), when incidentally the Vice President of India was also invited to a separate lecture in the institute.
According to the allegations levelled by students, Sudhanva was intentionally invited the day when Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar’s lecture was already scheduled.
During the lecture, Deshpande admits to having met Palestinian militant Zakaria Zubeidi in 2015 and defends violence & armed rebellion. Zubeidi’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades took responsibility for the Nov 2002 terrorist attack in Bet She’an in which 6 civilians died, the handle claimed to be operated by students of the institute noted.
It should be noted that after the outrage on social media, the IIT Bombay announced the cancellation of a talk that was slated to be held earlier on Monday but was postponed to Tuesday. The proposed talk which now stands cancelled would have been given by the controversial Professor-turned-activist Achin Vanaik who recently courtesy controversy for his pro-Hamas and anti-Hindu remarks in the garb of giving a lecture on ‘Israel-Palestine conflict and its history’.