The magistrate on Monday sent Hari Padman, the dance professor at Chennai's Kalakshetra's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts to judicial custody till April 13 in an alleged sexual harassment case.
Following the reports of repeated cases of sexual harassment with girls during college fests, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal on Monday summoned Delhi Police and Delhi University officials to appear before the commission.
Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind has moved an intervening application in Supreme Court in the matter pertaining to legal recognition of same-sex marriage saying that marriage of opposite genders is central to the legal regime.
Last Year, a woman, who is a junior athlete coach, alleged that the then sports minister harassed her from February to November last year, through repeated messages on social media, touched her inappropriately and also threatened her in messages.
The students of the Kalakshetra college in Chennai's Thiruvanmiyur were protesting over a delay in action against a professor and others, against whom sexual harassment allegations.
Amid the sexual/verbal abuse allegations levelled by the students' Union of Kalakshetra college, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday assured that if proven guilty, appropriate action would be taken against the alleged perpetrators.