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Chennai school teacher arrested on sexual harassment charges
Chennai school teacher arrested on sexual harassment charges
Chennai: The Chennai police on Tuesday arrested, Rajagopalan, a Commerce and Accountancy teacher of the leading Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB) Senior Secondary School, on charges of sexually harassing girl students. He was remanded in judicial custody till June 8 by the special judge trying POCSO cases. A number of girl students had accused him of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment â in one instance he turned up in a bath towel for an online class.
Police said his laptop and mobile phone, which have been confiscated, are being examined for incriminating electronic evidence. âWe have booked him under the provisions of the POCSO Act as well as Information Technology Act among others,â an officer said.
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CHENNAI: Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the school had never received any written complaint following the arrest of their teacher G Rajagopalan on charges of sexual harassment.
In the statement, the school said that the matter was first brought to their attention through social media and that a formal enquiry into the conduct of the teacher has been initiated.
“We have never received any written complaint on this matter from anyone. The behaviour of one teacher does not in any way detract from the highest standards of professionalism that our teachers uphold. For us our students’ welfare is absolutely sacrosanct,” the principal Geetha Govindarajan said.
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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.
Students had shared chat screenshots of alleged misconduct and described the way the faculty had dealt with girls during conventional and even offline classes.