With more serious allegations cropping up against its management and a few teachers, the Baba Jaswant Singh Dental College is in the dock again.

Manraj Kaur Dhaliwal, an intern who has been demanding an inquiry into the issue of non-payment of stipend to interns among other irregularities, levelled some fresh allegations against the college on Friday. She said a few teachers had been taking undue advantage of their position when it came to awarding marks in the internal assessment and were exploiting girl students.

The college authorities, however, denied the allegations, terming them “baseless” and “frivolous”. Principal Dr D S Kalsi said the student was not regular to the college and therefore teachers had some issues with her, adding that this was the reason why she was taking up cudgels against the college.

“The charges are totally baseless and she has been trying to fulfil her political motives by levelling such false allegations,” he said, referring to Manraj’s association with the Students Organisation of India. “Where is the proof?” Kalsi asked.

At a press conference on Friday, Manraj cited an incident of June 2008 when a teacher had allegedly asked her to meet him alone in his room. “Back then, the rooms of the heads of the departments had tinted glasses. After my complaint, which I had sent to Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, the glasses were changed. At least, they are transparent now,” she said.

She added that while one of the teachers whom she had named in the complaint had later left the college, the other still continued.

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