A suspended Visva-Bharati student on Saturday lodged a police complaint against vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty, accusing him of harassing her by linking her to a “fictitious” protest as she had “dared” to oppose his “illegal” activities.

A member of the CPM’s student wing SFI, Rupa Chakrabortty was one of the faces of the campus protest against the pro-Citizenship Amendment Act lecture that the varsity had held in January 2020.

In her complaint to the police, Rupa urged the force to “take appropriate action against Prof. Bidyut Chakrabarty for his criminal intimidation and selective harassment”.

The final-year student of Hindustani classical music said she was tagged in a fictitious student protest and suspended since January 2021. Rupa said she went to the police as the varsity administration “on the VC’s behest” extended her suspension by three months.

Birbhum police chief Nagendra Nath Tripathi said the police would look into the complaint, a copy of which Rupa has sent to varsity Chancellor and PM Narendra Modi, the state and national women’s commissions.

Visva-Bharati’s officiating PRO Anirban Sircar did not take calls or reply to a text of this paper.

“The VC had also tagged us as Maoists during an online meeting and I had to other option but to take recourse to law and appeal to people and institutions that matter,” Rupa added.