Bengal Female Professor Marries Student In Classroom, University Orders Probe

An assistant professor at a university in West Bengal has been ordered to face an inquiry after videos of her went viral where she would dress up as a bride and exchange garlands with her first-year students in a staged “wedding psychodrama”, reported The Times of India.

A teacher went viral for a staged "wedding" in her classroom with a student(WebduniaEnglish/X)

Payal Banerjee, who teaches applied psychology at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology said on Wednesday that she had resigned from her position and would take legal action against a colleague who was allegedly attempting to malign her.

She claimed that the videos showed a freshers event planned by her students where they had put together a mock-wedding which she participated in. Banerjee said that 12 days later her colleague shared videos of it which then became viral.