Stephen''s row worse than Dadri lynching: Thampu

New Delhi, October 4 

St Stephen's college's principal Valson Thampu today said that the molestation row of a research scholar, which rocked the college for over three months, was "worse" than the Dadri lynching case.

Thampu also said that the girl has now been forgotten as "useless rags" and dumped in the pits as an "abused specimen of humanity".

Maintaining that now the "sheep-skins have fallen off" and the "wolves have emerged in their true colours", Thampu urged the girl to meet him so that he could help her out in completing her PhD.

"How is this episode, may I make bold to ask, any better than the lynching of Mohammad Aklaq? If anything, it is worse, much worse. The lynching was done by a frenzied mob of some 200 misguided, perhaps illiterate, nit-wits- victims of false propaganda and communal incitement.

"The smart guys who 'lynched' this vulnerable, unsuspecting girl, in a state of desperation was by highly- educated vandals," he said in a Facebook post.

Thampu, who was accused of shielding the accused professor in the case, had been maintaining that the girl was being "mentored" by a few persons who had vested interests, which were used against him.

Reiterating the same, he further said, "For days, she was coached and tutored. She was serenaded from channel to channel. Suggestively masked and subtly revealed.

"She filled the media space and was made to serve as the peg on which the masks of some people's fleeting moral indignation could hang," he said.

"Now she is forgotten! I knew it was going to happen. But I did not know it would happen so soon," Thampu said.—PTI