New Delhi: Delhi Police has issued a notice to Congress MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, asking him to join the investigation into the JNU sexual harassment case. Police sources said he had been summoned for questioning Thursday.Jawaharlal Nehru University has dismissed Akoijam after its internal committee (IC) examined allegations made by several students against the MP, who was then a professor at JNU. After assessing witness statements, defence witnesses and other material placed before it, ICC said the incidents should not be viewed in isolation and the evidence indicated a recurring pattern of inappropriate personal interactions, sexually suggestive conduct and unwelcome physical contact.The committee also observed that the conduct had created an intimidating, offensive and hostile learning environment for women students, with inadequate professional boundaries in interactions.An FIR was registered on Oct 11 under sections 75, 75(1)(i), 75(1)(iv) and 79 pertaining to sexual harassment and words, gestures or acts intended to insult a woman’s modesty under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita following a complaint by JNU’s chief security officer.Police said JNU forwarded the details to the Vasant Kunj North station house officer for necessary legal action. The documents included the dismissal order, ICCs inquiry report, and its detailed assessment and observations. The police documents mentioned May 6 as the date of an incident, as well as an unspecified period before that date.Dismissing the allegations, Akoijam posted on X on Oct 11 that JNU had “lied” that he did not produce any witness. Calling the allegations against him a “politically motivated complaint”, he said if a legitimate institution had been turned into a “khap panchayat”, discarding the law, norms and rules and regulations, no truth or legitimate conclusion could be arrived at.
