CHENNAI: Three more female students of the Anna University have come forward to lodge sexual harassment complaints against the university professor Gnanavel Babu, who has already been arrested on a sexual harassment complaint from a final-year female student.
Meanwhile, officers confirmed that three more students have come forward to lodge complaints against Gnanavel Babu. Two have sent their complaints through emails, while the third complaint was revealed during an all-women police inquiry with female students at the university.
In that complaint, the student had said that the professor had been harassing a few other female students too.
He was also examined at a govt hospital on Saturday evening and produced before a magistrate court in Saidapet, from where he was taken to Puzhal prison for judicial custody for 14 days. He was questioned at a police station in connection with the sexual harassment and audio clips revealed by the student. Abiramapuram all-women police conducted a thorough investigation and arrested Gnanavel Babu.
The college authorities placed him under suspension after the issue was submitted before the harassment prevention committee in the university. The complaint lodged on Thursday stated that Gnanavel Babu had been harassing her for over three years, discussing private matters both in person and over phone. Police tracked and apprehended Gnanavel Babu from his relative’s house in Valliyoor near Tirunelveli on Friday night and brought him to Chennai.