CHENNAI: A school teacher who was
accused of sexual harassment by students and alumni was arrested by the Chennai city police on Monday midnight.
The Ashok Nagar All Women Police in the early hours of Tuesday arrested G Rajagopalan, the teacher accused of sexual harassment. He was brought to a magistrate who remanded him in judicial custody.
The incident came to light after Kripali, an alumni of the school collated and shared screenshots of many students sharing their ordeals of being allegedly harassed by the teacher. One of the screenshots shows a picture of him topless with only a cloth around his neck.
Express News Service
CHENNAI: Scores of students and alumni of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan group of schools and its associate institutions have accused some teachers of making sexually coloured remarks and advances towards them.
The incident has led to the suspension of one teacher, an inquiry set up by the School Education Department and an investigation by police officials.
The school management on Monday noon suspended a Class 12 teacher called G Rajagopalan from the KK Nagar Branch, after several students and alumni alleged that he sexually misbehaved with them . The accusations included actions like showing up to online class with just a towel, touching students inappropriately, asking them out for movies at off-hours, sharing pornographic links on groups and passing comments of a sexual nature on female students.