Police have registered an FIR and said they are investigating the matter. In their complaint, the students alleged the professor sent lewd messages to them on WhatsApp, and also inappropriately touched them several times.

“Professor Abdullah Mollah used to send messages to girls at night. If one didn’t reply to those messages, he would threaten to fail them in the exam. The professor used to ask us to stay the night in return for getting good marks in the exam. He used to touch our body inappropriately,” one of the complainants said.

Meanwhile, the professor denied the complaints and called the allegations baseless.