Students urged to update themselves about the developments

September 25, 2011

Mangalore, September 25: Doctoral programmes have a profound effect on the undergraduate and M Tech level education as teachers will be armed with knowledge of much higher level and greater analytical capabilities, said Prof M M Sharma, Emeritus Professor of Eminence ICT (Deemed University), Mumbai.

Delivering the eighth annual convocation address at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) at Surathkal near here on Sunday, he said innovative teaching is triggered thorough doctoral programme and in Applied Sciences the research at Doctoral level has many additional imperatives.

He said the utility of research invigorates the rigors of academic research rather than causing distraction. “We need to link the research to the needs of the industry,” he said.

He said, “We have immense opportunities and have extraordinary entrepreneurial skills in our genes”

Urging the graduating students to update themselves about the developments, Mr Sharma also said that it was necessity to keep abreast with current literature too.

Speaking on the occasion, Sushil Chandra Tripathi, Chairman of the Board of Governors of NITK said that a paradigm change in the way engineering problems were analysed and solved is required so as to address impacts of growth in human population and globalisation.

There is a need to redefine, restructure and reorganise the technical and engineering systems and organisations so as to ensure sustainable development, he said.

Prof Sandeep Sancheti, Director of NITK, said that the institute has 36 ongoing externally sponsored R&D projects along with internally funded projects. The institutes has generated a revenue of Rs 13 crores and Corpus funds stands to a total of more than Rs 40 crores, he said and added that the revenue earned through consultancy and testing has reached Rs 1.7 crore.

NITK has active MoUs with industrial giants such as IBM, BOSCH, Robert BOSCH, Accenture, MRPL etc. Three students were offered more than Rs 65 lakh and more than 10 students had received salary offers of over Rs 20 lakh per annum from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, National, Tata Consultancy and Bajaj Auto.

As many as 490 students of various engineering streams including Doctoral thesis, MBA, MCA, M Tech, B Tech were given the certificates.

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HC refuses to quash probe against Mangaluru WhatsApp admin over offensive posts

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February 1,2026

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash an investigation against a WhatsApp group administrator accused of allowing the circulation of obscene and offensive images depicting Hindutva politicians and idols in 2021.

Justice M Nagaprasanna observed that, prima facie, the ingredients of the offence under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code were made out. “The offence under Section 295A of the IPC is met to every word of its ingredient, albeit prima facie,” the judge said.

The petitioner, Sirajuddin, a resident of Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, had challenged the FIR registered against him at the CEN (Cyber, Economics and Narcotics) police station, Mangaluru, for offences under Section 295A of the IPC and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act. Section 295A relates to punishment for deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any class of citizens.

According to the complaint filed by K Jayaraj Salian, also a resident of Belthangady taluk, he received a WhatsApp group link from an unknown source and was added to the group after accessing it. The group reportedly had six administrators and around 250 participants, where obscene and offensive images depicting Hindu deities and certain political figures were allegedly circulated repeatedly.

Sirajuddin was arrested in connection with the case and later released on bail on February 16, 2021. He argued before the court that he was being selectively targeted, while other administrators—including the creator of the group—were neither arrested nor investigated. He also contended that the Magistrate could not have taken cognisance of the offence under Section 295A without prior sanction under Section 196(1) of the CrPC.

Rejecting the argument, Justice Nagaprasanna held that prior sanction is required only at the stage of taking cognisance, and not at the stage of registration of the crime or during investigation.

The judge noted that the State had produced the entire investigation material before the court. “A perusal of the material reveals depictions of Hindu deities in an extraordinarily obscene, demeaning and profane manner. The content is such that its reproduction in a judicial order would itself be inappropriate,” the court said, adding that the material, on its face, had the tendency to outrage religious feelings and disturb communal harmony.

Observing that the case was still at the investigation stage, the court said it could not interdict the probe at this juncture. However, it expressed concern that the investigating officer appeared to have not proceeded uniformly against all administrators. The court clarified that if the investigation revealed the active involvement of any member in permitting the circulation of such content, they must also be proceeded against.

“At this investigative stage, any further observation by this Court would be unnecessary,” the order concluded.

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