An Indian origin man has sued a university in Australia’s Queensland State for damages of (AUD) $30125 million, claiming to have lost his sex-drive and reputation after failing in two subjects in a bid to get admitted into a Ph.D. course, a media report said.
Kuldeep Mann (52), who is a resident of Melbourne, paid $20,000 in 2015 to secure admission in a Ph.D. course in social sciences at the Townsville campus of Queensland’s James Cook University. But he failed to gain entry after the faculty accused him of plagiarism and of not being “up to the mark”, according to a 9news.com.au report.
Accusing the university staff of mental torture, Mann told 9News, that the staff had also caused psychological day-to-day suffering. “Everything was affected including my sex life”.
“It has stopped my sex life. I have no sex drive. There is no stimulation in my organs. I have never had this problem before. I don’t feel any blood down there,” Mann told The Courier-Mail.
Mann claims that the University gave him a ‘Grade Fail’ in spite of meeting the requirements of the four-year social sciences Ph.D.
Speaking to 9 News, the 52-year-old said, “If the university didn’t have this kind of trick on me, had they not destroyed my… ruined my career I should have by now completed my Ph.D.”
Mann has placed a 20-page claim for damages for mental torture, potential loss of income, and prolonged harassment before the court, adding that his relationship with his “partner” is on the verge of collapse.
“I hope that the honourable Supreme Court will do full justice with me by awarding me the aforementioned full amount of compensation as remedy for all my losses and sufferings,” said Mann.
He is now anticipating for the lower court in Australia to process and hear his application at the earliest, failing which he has expressed resolution to go to the highest court in Queensland.
