Representatives of the Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras (IIT-M) on Saturday apologised for the attack on a news
photographer and assured the withdrawal of the case against him which
pressed charges of harassment.
On Tuesday evening, The New Indian Express
photographer Albin Mathew was assaulted by an IIT-M professor and
security guards on the campus after Mr. Mathew had taken photographs of a
ladies hostel building where a student committed suicide. Mr. Mathew
lodged a complaint and the Kotturpuram police registered a case and
arrested three guards. A hostel warden then registered a complaint
against the photographer.
Amidst a gathering of media
persons at the police commissionerate in Egmore on Saturday in protest
against the attack, N. Siva Prasad, registrar of IIT-M, read out an
apology note on behalf of the institution.
Mr. Mathew will not be withdrawing his complaint.
