Protests broke out at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), in Kolkata on Saturday, with the students demanding the resignation of Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Prof Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti amid allegations of financial mismanagement, misconduct and sexual harassment.V-C Chakrabarti did not respond to calls and messages made by The Indian Express on Saturday.This comes nearly a week after the Supreme Court, while dismissing an appeal made by the complainant, a faculty member of the law university, said that the judgment should be made part of the resume of the V-C.“It is advisable to forgive the wrongdoer, but not to forget the wrongdoing. The wrong which has been committed against the appellant may not be investigated on technical grounds, but it must not be forgotten. In this view of the matter, we direct that the incidents of alleged sexual harassment on part of respondent no.1 may be forgiven but allowed to haunt the wrongdoer forever. Thus, it is directed that this judgment shall be made part of the resume of respondent no.1, compliance of which shall be strictly ensured by him personally,” a bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Prasanna B Varale said in the order issued on September 12 in connection with a 2023 sexual harassment case against Chakrabarti.The complaint, filed by a faculty member, alleged harassment between 2019 and April 2023. An internal complaints committee initially rejected the complaint on the grounds that it wasn’t filed within the prescribed three-month filing limit — while the last alleged instance of sexual harassment was in April 2023, the complainant was filed in December that year.The complainant then moved the Calcutta High Court. Last year, a single judge bench of the High Court quashed the order of the internal complaints committee. Later, in December last year, on appeal, the High Court reversed its decision, upholding the dismissal of the sexual harassment complaint.The complainant then moved the Supreme Court.On Saturday, an executive council meeting was held on the Law University campus. During the meeting, a number of students staged a protest in front of Supreme Court Justice Dipankar Dutta and State Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya. The students held up posters which read, ‘I do not accept this V-C…’ and wrote ‘Remove V-C’.Story continues below this adA student of the college said, “We have submitted a representation to the executive council asking them to take action. But no concrete decision has been taken yet.”The students, in a statement said, “Our protest is not an isolated reaction to a single incident. It is a collective cry born out of months, even years of silence, frustration and disappointment. It is an action born out of desperation, post the grave allegations of sexual harassment levelled against the V-C, which has to be mandatorily included in his resume, as directed by the apex court, the glaring lack of financial transparency, and the systematic pattern of administrative failures, persistent apathy, and growing disconnect between the administration and its students and faculty members.”The statement added, “We are united in our demand for accountability, justice, and the restoration of faith in the leadership of this institution. This is not a step we take lightly; NUJS is our home, and we speak up today because we care deeply about its future. We believe that the values of integrity, equality, and fairness that our university teaches must first be upheld within its own walls.”