The #MeToo movement rocked Pune's Symbiosis Center for Media and Communication (SCMC), with several former students accusing their seniors and some faculty members of sexual harassment. The SCMC authorities have apologized to those women and said the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) had been instructed to hear their versions. The former students had taken to social media platforms to share their harrowing accounts of harassment.

A woman assistant professor arrested for allegedly trying to sexually exploit girl-students was denied bail Wednesday by the Madras High-Court. A Madurai bench of the high court denied bail to assistant professor Nirmala Devi and her co-accused Professor Murugan of Madurai Kamaraj University. The two were arrested along with Karuppasamy, a research student, in April. The trio is presently lodged in Madurai central Jail.