Overview
- Police arrested professor Gnanavel Babu in Tirunelveli on Friday and are bringing him to Chennai for questioning.
- The complaint describes grooming followed by late-night calls and explicit messages, and police registered a case under the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act and Section 78 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for stalking.
- Anna University placed the professor under immediate suspension pending internal proceedings and the police probe.
- Students rallied on campus after earlier PoSH complaints went nowhere, seeking an independent process that records statements from women students in private.
- Four more women from the same class have filed complaints since the arrest, and a deputy commissioner is overseeing a probe that has moved to the Mylapore all-women station with digital evidence under review.