dehradun the national institute for empowerment of persons with visual disabilities niepvd suspended a bed student after an internal committee found charges of sexual harassment against him truethe student has been suspended for six months and his entry has been banned in the niepvd premisesa visually challenged female student of niepvd had alleged that her classmate sexually harassed her in july this year on the directions of uttarakhand state commission for protection of child rights uscpcr the institute had swung into action and started probing the matterconfirming the suspension niepvd director nachiketa rout said the girl had submitted audio recordings to the internal committee through which the panel confirmed that the boy had harassed her we have taken strict action against the accused and have suspended him for a semester if he continues to repeat such offences he will be permanently suspended from the institutethe victim had complained of sexual abuse to the institute in july this year however when the institute failed to take prompt action in the matter she approached uscpcr chairperson of the rights panel usha negi reached the institute with police on august 16 and started probing the matterthe institute was earlier in the news after students complained of sexual harassment against a music teacher