The Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) arrested self-styled non secular guru Siva Shankar Baba in Delhi on Wednesday following sexual abuse complaints by college students of his faculty at Kelambakkam close to Chennai.
The Mamallapuram All Women Police Station (AWPS) had registered three instances in opposition to him beneath numerous sections of the IPC, Pocso Act and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act and these had been transferred to the CB-CID a number of days in the past.
Baba, in the meantime, snubbed a Tamil Nadu Commission for Protection of Child Rights (TNCPCR) listening to citing he had suffered a coronary heart assault and was reportedly in Dehradun.
The CB-CID crew unsuccessfully regarded for him in a Dehradun hospital and later nabbed him from the outskirts of Delhi with the assistance of native police. Siva Shankar Baba is prone to be dropped at Chennai on Wednesday itself for additional inquiry. Meanwhile, two extra lecturers of the college had been booked beneath related sections of the IPC and Pocso Act.
It all started after a school member of the college was arrested on expenses of sexual harassment. Many survivors since then got here ahead and revealed tales of abuse they’d confronted throughout their days on the faculty. One amongst them alleged Siva Shankar Baba used to harass her and the publish was extensively shared on social media with a number of of the alumni expressing solidarity with the survivor. The college students stated that Baba used to ask them to his room, intoxicate them and later sexually abuse them.