India, Feb. 19 -- A 57-year-old art teacher from a Coimbatore school was arrested on Wednesday on charges of sexually assaulting female students, police said.

The principal of the school filed a complaint with the All Women Police Station in central Coimbatore after several girls reported the teacher's inappropriate behaviour during classes and on other occasions.

Around 10 students from the school also lodged formal complaints with the police on Wednesday.

Following the complaint from the school's principal, the accused teacher, a resident of Vadavalli, was taken into custody, said police commissioner A. Saravana Sundar.

Sundar said the students alleged that the teacher had been misbehaving with them for over four months.

The teache...