<p>Kolkata: A senior female professor of a university in West Bengal, who is in the eye of a storm following the circulation of a video showing her "marrying" a student inside a classroom, has offered to resign citing inability to continue her association with the varsity, a senior official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>A purported video clip of the woman, head of the department of Applied Psychology at the state-run Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), performing Hindu Bengali marriage rituals with a first-year student of her department inside a classroom went viral on January 28, triggering a furore.</p>.<p>MAKAUT Registrar Partha Pratim Lahiri told PTI that the professor has sent an e-mail to his office in which she has expressed her inability to continue her association with the state-run university "in view of the current situation" arising out of the circulation of video which left her "mentally devastated".</p>.Watch: Female professor gets 'married' to student in classroom; viral video triggers varsity probe.<p>"She has referred to the incident and thanked MAKAUT for allowing her the opportunity to work with the institution for the past few years," Lahiri said.</p>.<p>Lahiri said that the teacher, who had been asked to go on leave following the controversy, sent the mail on February 1 and it is currently under process.</p>.<p>"We will let you know our decision at the right time," he said.</p>.<p>The video clip, showing the teacher in all her bridal finery, was shot inside a classroom at the Haringhata campus of MAKAUT in the state's Nadia district.</p>.<p>The professor, however, had claimed it was a play enacted as part of a psycho-drama project, which had been staged with the consent of students and the university.</p>.<p>She also alleged that one part of the play was deliberately leaked by a colleague who wanted to malign her and sabotage her career.</p>.<p>The teacher had said that she would take legal steps to seek remedy for the harm done to her social and academic reputation.</p>.<p>The woman academic had been asked to go on leave by MAKAUT on January 29.</p>.<p>The varsity had formed a five-member inquiry panel, all women faculty members, and the panel in its findings trashed the professor's claims about the video being a part of a psycho-drama project for documentation, another university official said.</p>.<p>"It was nothing but a cheap skit of a freshers' welcome programme and inappropriate for a senior teacher," the Officiating Vice-Chancellor, Tapash Chakraborty, said.</p>.<p>The professor could not be reached for her comment on the matter.</p>
<p>Kolkata: A senior female professor of a university in West Bengal, who is in the eye of a storm following the circulation of a video showing her "marrying" a student inside a classroom, has offered to resign citing inability to continue her association with the varsity, a senior official said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>A purported video clip of the woman, head of the department of Applied Psychology at the state-run Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), performing Hindu Bengali marriage rituals with a first-year student of her department inside a classroom went viral on January 28, triggering a furore.</p>.<p>MAKAUT Registrar Partha Pratim Lahiri told PTI that the professor has sent an e-mail to his office in which she has expressed her inability to continue her association with the state-run university "in view of the current situation" arising out of the circulation of video which left her "mentally devastated".</p>.Watch: Female professor gets 'married' to student in classroom; viral video triggers varsity probe.<p>"She has referred to the incident and thanked MAKAUT for allowing her the opportunity to work with the institution for the past few years," Lahiri said.</p>.<p>Lahiri said that the teacher, who had been asked to go on leave following the controversy, sent the mail on February 1 and it is currently under process.</p>.<p>"We will let you know our decision at the right time," he said.</p>.<p>The video clip, showing the teacher in all her bridal finery, was shot inside a classroom at the Haringhata campus of MAKAUT in the state's Nadia district.</p>.<p>The professor, however, had claimed it was a play enacted as part of a psycho-drama project, which had been staged with the consent of students and the university.</p>.<p>She also alleged that one part of the play was deliberately leaked by a colleague who wanted to malign her and sabotage her career.</p>.<p>The teacher had said that she would take legal steps to seek remedy for the harm done to her social and academic reputation.</p>.<p>The woman academic had been asked to go on leave by MAKAUT on January 29.</p>.<p>The varsity had formed a five-member inquiry panel, all women faculty members, and the panel in its findings trashed the professor's claims about the video being a part of a psycho-drama project for documentation, another university official said.</p>.<p>"It was nothing but a cheap skit of a freshers' welcome programme and inappropriate for a senior teacher," the Officiating Vice-Chancellor, Tapash Chakraborty, said.</p>.<p>The professor could not be reached for her comment on the matter.</p>