The Batala Police arrested a senior scientist-cum-professor at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, for allegedly circulating a defamatory e-mail against the wife of a senior Punjab Police officer and a professor from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).
An officer from Batala Police’s cyber police station said that Dr Navdeep Singh, professor-cum-head, department of veterinary surgery and radiology, GADVASU, was arrested and sent in judicial remand.
While the police is tight-lipped about the matter, police sources confirmed that Dr Navdeep Singh was arrested after a “defamatory bulk e-mail” about the woman and her alleged links with PAU professor was sent from a “fake ID” to “entire PAU faculty including the vice-chancellor”.A police source said during probe “the mails were tracked to Dr Navdeep’s IP address” following which he was arrested. The officer added that a woman assistant professor from PAU also allegedly connived with him and her role was also under the scanner.
The PAU professor “defamed” in the mail is also the head of a department in agricultural university, while the cop’s wife was working on a project in his department, the source added.
The PAU and GADVASU campuses are located next to each other in Ludhiana.