Two professors from Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) have approached the Madras High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case booked by Greater Chennai police against many individuals, including a few students, for having raped and sexual harassed a Dalit research scholar between 2016 and 2020.
Justice G. Jayachandran has adjourned the hearing on their plea to April 18. Professor G. Edamana Prasad and Professor Ramesh L. Gardas said that they had been arrayed as the fifth and ninth accused in the First Information Report (FIR) registered at the All Women Police Station in Mylapore on June 9, 2021.
According to the petitioners, they serve in the department of chemistry of IIT-M and teach B.Tech, dual degree and M.Sc., students besides guiding Ph.D. and post doctoral research scholars. They pointed out that the other accused named in the FIR were the students of the chemistry department.
