Economist Amartya Sen has asked the Vishwa Bharati vice chancellor to withdraw the false allegations against him. His lawyer has also written to the VC, about which Sen mentions in his letter. Here are the excerpts from the letter Sen wrote to the VC:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have heard from my lawyer\u2026 asking you to withdraw immediately your false allegation made to the news agencies that a plot of land owned by Visva-Bharati is unlawfully occupied by me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile you have not been able to provide any justification for this astonishing allegation, you now say that you are requesting the West Bengal government to measure the area of our homestead, Pratichi, to compare with the long-term lease of land taken by my father in 1940 from Visva-Bharati.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour officiating Registrar, Mr Mahato, has threatened that \u2018if there is any additional land occupied by him (Sen), legal action will be taken\u2019. This sudden abuse of an 80-year-old document is clearly a crude attempt at harassment \u2014 or worse. Among other errors it ignores the big fact, which I have stated many times (even in the context of this dispute), that a substantial amount of free-hold land was purchased by my father (in the market \u2014 not from Visva-Bharati) to add to our homestead (with records of purchase registered under Mouza-Surul), on which khajna and Panchayat taxes are paid by me yearly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Registrar\u2019s threat of \u2018legal action\u2019 if he discovers \u2018any additional land\u2019 beyond the leased land seems hugely mischievous.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how the Vice-Chancellor treats his colleagues, but I have to confess I am getting quite tired of the deceptions. For example, the V.C. insisted that I called him by telephone from Santiniketan in June 2019 (he even gave two alternative June dates for this alleged conversation — June 2 and June 14) and said that I introduced myself as Bharat Ratna, which is entirely implausible.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn being informed that I was abroad for the entire month of June 2019 and came back to India only in July, the story was promptly altered by the V.C.\u2019s office to assert that I had called in \u2018June or July\u2019 but said the same things.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than inventing new falsities and adding to their culpability, Visva-Bharati should withdraw the false allegations made by them, as my lawyer has asked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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