IIM Calcutta to permit scholar out on bail in rape case to attend lessons

The educational council at a gathering final week determined to permit the scholar involved— Paramanand Mahaveer Toppannawar (26)— to attend lessons from July 28.

However, it was determined that he can’t keep within the campus hostel until the Kolkata Police SIT full their investigation.

The educational council assembly befell on Friday (July 25, 2025), after the second-year scholar visited the campus to submit an software searching for the institute’s nod to attend lessons, the official stated.

However, his one other plea for staying in the identical Lake View Hostel— the place he had been earlier staying as a boarder and from the place he was arrested— was turned down because it was a co-educational hostel and the probe was but to be accomplished, the official stated.

While Mr. Paramanand can be allowed to make use of the library, his plea for compensatory attendance for lacking the lessons throughout the incarceration interval— July 12 to 22— shall be taken up for consideration later, the official stated.

Mr. Paramanand will attend lessons for eight extra months within the two-year programme.

The council assembly, primarily based on authorized recommendation, was attended by IIM-C performing director Saibal Chattopadhyay, deans, and different senior school members/officers, the official stated.

The scholar was arrested after a girl, who claimed to be a counsellor and never related to the institute, had alleged that Mr. Paramanand had raped her on the IIM-C hostel on July 11 after spiking her drink. She had claimed in her FIR that she had been invited to the hostel by the accused for counselling points, however was brutalised afterward.

However, subsequently, the girl didn’t flip up when requested by the police to help within the investigation, whereas her father claimed she was pressured to make such allegations and no such factor had taken place on July 11.