Hari Padman, a senior dancer teacher at Kalakshetra Foundation's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts, was arrested by the Adyar All Women Police Station on April 3 on various sexual harassment charges.
The independent inquiry committee to look into the sexual harassment complaints at Kalakshetra is headed by a retired judge Justice K Kannan, former Tamil Nadu DGP Letika Saran, and Dr Shobha Varthaman.
The embattled head of Kalakshetra Foundation Revathi Ramachandran made students write an apology letter for complaining about the food poisoning incident in November 2021, and shut the college down for the UG students immediately after.
Members of AIDWA, SFI and DYFI held a protest near the Kalakshetra Foundation’s campus in Chennai, against the administration’s alleged mishandling of sexual harassment complaints.