Head coach of a sports academy arrested for sexual harassment
The Hindu
He was booked under five Sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences following a complaint from a 19-year-old girl.
The city police on Saturday arrested P. Nagarajan, 59, head coach of a sports academy, for sexually harassing girls whom he trained for athletic activities. He was booked by All Women Police, Flower Bazaar, under five Sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) following a complaint from a 19-year-old girl whom he allegedly harassed sexually. Following the registration of the complaint, he swallowed sleeping pills and was admitted in the Government Royapettah Hospital. After being discharged from the hospital, he was arrested and taken to a court for remand. When allegations of sexual harassment by his former trainees surfaced on social media, one of the victims, a 19-year-old girl, came forward to lodge the complaint. She said she was trained by him between 2013-2020 in Pachaiyappa’s School Grounds in Broadway. The girl alleged that she had joined his training programme and had been trained along with other girls. On many occasions, the coach sent the other girls away after the training session was over and asked her to stay back. According to the complaint, under the guise of providing physiotherapy, he allegedly touched her inappropriately.
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