College Teacher Arrested In Odisha For Sexually Harassing Male Students: Police

A student filed a police complaint on Monday night against Niranjan Panda, a lecturer of political science at Chitalo Mahavidyalaya, the police said.

A teacher of a private college was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sexually harassing male students of his institution in Odisha's Jajpur district, the police said. A student filed a police complaint on Monday night against Niranjan Panda, a lecturer of political science at Chitalo Mahavidyalaya, they said. The FIR stated that Panda used to force students to spend nights with him at his residence for helping them in examinations and also threatened to reduce marks if they did not agree to the proposal. Audio clips of telephonic conversations between the teacher and his students, and screenshots of text messages have gone viral on social media, the complainant claimed.