Mangalore : The Mangalore Police Commissionerate organized Meet the Commissioner’ programme for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs) at the Police Commissioner’s office on July 25, Sunday.

Speaking on the problems, Nirmal Kumar of Karnataka Rajya Dalitha Sangha Samiti, urged Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh to take necessary action against Abhaya Kumar, Professor in Kannada Department, Mangalore University for sexually harassing a PhD contender belonging to their community.
He also said that, the contender from Govinda Pai Memorial College, Manjeshwara, had started working under Abhaya Kumar for her Doctorate in the year 1999.
The professor used to sexually harass the aspirant and make phone calls to her house; tensed aspirant later filed complaint to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Deputy Commissioner of Kasaragod and Assistant Commissioner of Manjeshwara. Though they urged the state government to take up the issue, no justice has been received and he has been let free without taking any action against him, he alleged.