Shaija Andavan, Professor at the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NIT-C), failed to turn up at the Kunnamangalam police station on February 13 (Tuesday) after she was summoned for a detailed interrogation in connection with a case pertaining to her social media comment allegedly glorifying Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse. Police sources said she has sought leave for five days on medical grounds.
The summons was served on February 11 after a preliminary interrogation by the Kunnamangalam police and a day after the NIT-C constituted a committee to investigate Prof. Andavan’s controversial comment on a Facebook post in which she allegedly thanked Godse for “saving India” from Gandhi.
The Facebook post was made by a lawyer, Krishnaraj, with a photograph of Godse and the caption ‘Hindu Mahasabha Activist Nathuram Vinayak Godse, a hero of many in India’. Prof. Andavan deleted her comment after it had kicked up a controversy.
