Hari Padman, a senior faculty member at Chennai's Kalakshetra Foundation, who was arrested on charges of sexual harassment in April this year, has been granted bail.
On 3 June, the IX Metropolitan Magistrate Court at the Saidapet court complex in Chennai granted bail to Padman on the condition that he must report to a police station daily, The Hindu quoted police sources as saying.
Padman, a dance professor at the institute's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts, was arrested by the Chennai Police on 3 April based on a sexual harassment complaint filed by a former student of the institute. He was suspended from Kalakshetra thereafter.