Mumbai: Commerce college suspends staffer in caste row

The Deonar police on Tuesday, registered an atrocity case against three top officials of Sri Narayan Guru College of Commerce, Chembur, after one of its suspended staffer levelled allegations of discriminating him on the basis of caste. The complainant in the case, Anand Kamble, a resident of Navi Mumbai, belongs to reserved caste, was serving in the college from May 2013 till July 2015. According to his complaint, since he belonged to reserved caste, he was been discriminated at his work place, till the extend of suspending him.

Kamble further alleged that the harassment was so extreme that at the time when he was under his suspension, he was not even given his suspension salary. The complainant also alleged that when he applied for money from his post retirement funds allotted to him by his work place, the authorities, purposely did not fill the requirement form entirely, due to which he was unable to access the designated money. 

He further alleged that the college authorities asked him to not to enter the college, not to attend its temple and also not to take part in the religious as well as the cultural programs held by the college. Thus, tired of the harassment caused to him by the college authorities, he registered a case under atrocity act against the authorities.