#MeToo: Kolkata theatre professor accused of sexual abuse

Bengali atre personality and professor Sudipto Chatterjee has been accused of sexual harassment and was arrested on Friday. complaint was lodged by a third-year student at a privately-run Herit college in Kolkata. complainant alleged that Chatterjee sexually abused her at his home in March 2019. Chatterjee was later arrested by police when or two women registered rape complaints in two different police stations, accusing him of raping m on pretext of teaching acting techniques. Chatterjee will be produced before court on Saturday.

Chatterjee, who holds a Ph.D. from a New York-based university is a kwn atre personality who h been running a atre group, Spectator. He was also a professor of media studies at a Kolkata based private college. He resigned from college on Tuesday, a day after one of his students, took to social media to describe her ordeal. On Thursday, students protested on college campus to demand justice for woman. 

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'Serial offender'

She alleged that Chatterjee was a serial offender and filed a police complaint along with ar survivor. "I filed an official complaint with institution against this rapist on Monday, October 14. I was called for a meeting at college on Wednesday, October 16 and during same meeting authority h informed me that Sudipto Chatterjee h ‘apparently‘ submitted his resignation on Tuesday, October 15," she wrote on Facebook.

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After first woman came out with her story, two or women also accused Sudipto of harassing m in heartbreaking Facebook posts. One of women, who called out Sudipto of assaulting her in a Facebook post, accused him of digital rape.

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According to reports, Chatterjee was called by college's human resources department after student complained and was told that college h zero tolerance for sexual abuse. college also reconstituted its internal complaints committee on Thursday as earlier committee did t have a student representative as required by UGC guidelines.

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