India, Aug. 19 -- A Class 12 student has been arrested on charges that he set on fire a 25-year-old female teacher who had filed a harassment complaint against him in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district, police said on Tuesday

The woman was a guest teacher at the district's Government School of Excellence, from where the accused was expelled two years ago. The student, identified by the police as Suryansh Kochar, subsequently enrolled at a government school in Kalyanpur and continued his studies. However, he could often drop by at his old school.

On August 15, the 18-year-old student visited the Government School of Excellence and made some objectionable comments on the teacher. "The teacher filed the complaint with school administrat...