Tiruchi: The Tiruchi City Police have arrested the suspended associate professor and head, Department of Tamil, at Bishop Heber College, C J Paul Chandramohan on charges of sexually harassing some women students.
In March this year, a group of five female students had filed a complaint with the college authorities, alleging that Paul Chandra was using sexual innuendos during offline classes.
They alleged that the professor made inappropriate, vulgar and lewd comments in class and used to do ‘physically disgusting things’.
Weeks after the complaint, an Internal Complaints Committee was formed and an inquiry was conducted in April.
With the deadline for implementing recommendations of the committee nearing, the college management, on 30 June, ordered the suspension of Chandramohan. He was picked up by the city police on Wednesday, after the district Social Welfare Department lodged a complaint against him at the Srirangam All Women’s Police Station.
The Srirangam All Women Police registered a case against Paul Chandramohan under IPC sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 354-D (stalking), 294 (b) (uttering obscene words in or near any public place), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) and section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Woman Act.