AGRA, April 23 -- Following the arrest of a senior professor accused of sexually harassing and blackmailing about a dozen female students at PC Bagla Degree College in Hathras in March, principal Mahaveer Singh Chonkar have also been held by the local police for failing to address the complaints by victims, authorities said on Wednesday. Not only the complaints against the accused professor were sidelined, he was even made the chief proctor of college, they said.

Hathras superintendent of police (SP) Chiranjeev Nath Sinha said that the action was taken jointly by the Hathras Gate police and Special Operation Group (SOG) in connection with the case already registered against Prof Rajneesh Kumar, who was arrested in March.

"It emerged dur...