A female student of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore has levelled sexual harassment charge against a student-member of the placement cell, prompting the Internal Complaints Committee to launch a probe, a top official of the business school said on Thursday.

The student accused of sexual harassment was asked by the institute’s ICC to step down from the IIM’s Placement Committee and he has complied with the directive, he said.

The local unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had sent a memorandum to the IIM director alleging a student on the placement committee sexually harassed “some female students” during an off-campus event.

The memorandum demanded that the IIM Indore management ensure a fair, transparent, and timely investigation into the allegatio

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