Madras HC refuses to stay sexual harassment probe against college faculty

Chennai | Saturday | 17th August, 2019

Summary:

By Express News ServiceThe Madras High Court has declined to quash a showcause notice issued to a teaching faculty member of the Madras Christian College (MCC) who is facing sexual harassment charges from at least 34 female students. The report had stated that Tennyson had sexually harassed female students. He also sought to quash the consequential second show cause notice dated May 24, 2019. Besides the probe, the college management had issued him a warning and barred him from paper-evaluation work and internal examinership for the end semester 2018-2019. Tennyson argued in the court that the ICC did not given him certain documents and statements he had sought to defend himself..