Chennai Police Arrests Teacher Accused of Sexual Harassment

Students have levelled allegations that he harassed girls with awkward questions clouded in sexual innuendos.

Just a day after several students of a top school in Chennai, Tamil Nadu levelled allegations of sexual harassment against a teacher, the 59-year-old accused was arrested on Monday night.

The Accounts and Business Studies teacher was arrested under sections 11 and 12 (sexual harassment of children) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, sections 354(A) (sexual harassment) and 509 (insulting modesty of woman) of IPC and sections 67 (punishment for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) and 67A (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act.

Since Sunday night, students have been levelling appalling allegations that he routinely harassed girls with ‘awkward questions’ clouded in sexual innuendos, commented on their figures, and even ‘elbowed their breasts’ and said that it happened by mistake.