Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian physicist
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Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
About Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta
- Sushanta Kumar Dattagupta, known better as Sushanta Dattagupta, is an Indian Condensed matter physicist.
- Serving as a faculty member (later director) at the SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, Dattagupta was appointed Vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University.
- However, it was soon revealed that he was guilty of persistent sexual harassment of colleagues, financial impropriety and embezzlement.
- The charges were sufficiently serious to attract a high-level inquiry by the Government of India and on 15 February 2016, he was dismissed from his position as Vice-Chancellor of –Visva-Bharati University by the President of India.
- Following the sacking, Duttagupta was charged with corruption.
- However, he was later cleared of all these charges by the court through an order dated April 2, 2018.
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