Professor accused of sexual harassment remanded to judicial custody

The suspended senior professor of Anna University, who was arrested in Tirunelveli on Friday, on charges of sexually harassing a female student, was brought to the city and remanded to judicial custody on Saturday after being produced in the court.

On Friday, the All-Women Police Station, Abiramapuram, registered a case against Gnanavel Babu, a senior professor from the Industrial Engineering department, following a complaint by a final-year student alleging sexual harassment. The professor was suspended by the university administration.