Original reports on the allegations of assault and sexual assault against former UMBC professor Ramachandra Hosmane can be found here and here. The charges against Hosmane were nolle prossed (dismissed) last week in district court in Catonsville.

Since that time, we’ve received tips, including a comment on one of the previous posts, that the charges against Hosmane were dropped as some sort of deal with his accuser. The tipindicates that some sort of financial settlement deal between Hosmane and his accuser was made. Presumably this meant a civil or private settlement of some sort in which the accuser agreed not to testify in court – which would result in the charges being thrown out. The tipsters also indicated that Hosmane had retired from UMBC as of January 1, 2010. The commenter indicated that a UMBC investigation corroborated what the accuser had alleged.

In doing further research, we discovered that Hosmane is no longer listed on the faculty page for the Chemistry Department at UMBC and the Hosmane Research Group is missing from the list of research groups. We also sent email to the office of his attorney, Arthur M. Frank, asking for comment last week on the charges being dismissed and again today regarding the latest tips we received. Additionally, we made similar requests of the attorney for the accuser and received no responses.

I did receive confirmation from Eleanor Lewis at UMBC that Hosmane has indeed retired from the University.

Anyone with further information on this story is welcome to send email to mail@insidecharmcity.com. We welcome comments from Dr. Hosmane, Mr. Frank, Hosmane’s accuser, her attorney, and anyone else with information confirming or refuting the previous information relayed to us.

To sum things up, Ramachandra Hosmane is retired from UMBC. This reportedly happened January 1 and then charges were dismissed against him January 6. We received information that indicated Hosmane reached some sort of financial agreement with his accuser in which she agreed not to testify against him. We are still seeking additional confirmation on the details of any settlement and his retirement.

Update: The Retriever Weekly’s blog picks up the story about the retirement and the charges being nolle prossed.