A professor at Anna University was arrested on Friday evening following allegations of sexual harassment and stalking, police said, in a case that has triggered student protests and raised fresh questions about campus safety mechanisms. The professor, identified by police as Gnanavel Babu, was picked up from Tirunelveli. “We arrested him in Tirunelveli and he is being brought to Chennai for interrogation,” a senior police officer said. Also Read Bengaluru medical college professor booked after proposing to student in classroomAccording to police sources, the FIR followed a complaint by a woman student who alleged that the professor had subjected her to sexual harassment for nearly two years. He also raised concerns about the functioning of the university’s Prevention of Sexual Harassment (PoSH) committee, pointing out that the alleged harassment went on for two years.

Source: The Telegraph March 27, 2026 16:44 UTC