Porn material recovered from varsity professor

March 31, 2015 12:00 am | Updated November 16, 2021 05:11 pm IST - PUDUCHERRY:

Police on Monday recovered pornographic material from the desktop which was used by a Pondicherry University professor. He was recently arrested on charges of sexually abusing a minor girl.

Police also filed a petition in a local court seeking to order the conduct of potency test on the professor of the Department of Tamil in Pondicherry University .

Following a complaint by the victim studying in class VIII in a government school to Child Helpline, the case was taken by Kalapet Police. They arrested M.Mathialagan (59) resident of Lawspet.

A case was registered against him for the offences under provisions of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and Indian Penal Code. On Saturday he was remanded to judicial custody. Now police also filed another petition seeking for custodial interrogation of the professor.

Meanwhile, Pondicherry State Students and Parents’ Welfare Association alleged that the Committee Against Sexual Harassment in the university is not active. The association requested the Vice-Chancellor to reactivate the committee in the university in the interest of girl students.

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