She was issued a transfer certificate she had applied for, the girl's father said.
After completing the formalities at the Kala Bhavan, (school of fine arts) where she was a student and at her hostel, the girl collected her belongings and left.
Before leaving Santiniketan, her father said "my daughter is leaving Visva-Bharati with a heavy heart. But after such a terrible incident, it is not at all possible for her to stay here safely. She is also still suffering from trauma.
Efforts to contact Vice-Chancellor Susanta Dutta Gupta and Kala Bhavan Principal Sisir Sahana failed as they did not take calls, nor replied to SMSes sent to them.
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The girl had lodged a complaint to the university authorities in late August that three students of her department and an outsider had sexually harassed her and clicked photos with their mobiles and threatened to blackmail her with those.
The three students, two from the second year and one from third year, were later arrested and are now under judicial custody. The outsider is yet to be arrested.
A two-member fact-finding team of the University Grants Commission comprising Tezpur University vice-chancellor Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri and UGC joint secretary Ratnabali Banerjee had visited Visva Bharati to investigate the matter.
The UGC team, however, failed to meet the girl who is under treatment in Burdwan Medical College Hospital. Her father refused to allow them to meet her saying she was "tired and mentally upset repeating her ordeal to various people."
The Kala Bhavan student registered her statement before the magistrate under Section 164 of the CrPC yesterday.