Overview
- Additional Sessions Judge Rupali Pawar approved the pre-arrest bail on December 30 as the investigation continues.
- An FIR was registered on November 30 at Azad Maidan police station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provision on outraging a woman's modesty.
- The complaint alleges inappropriate touching of nine student volunteers, non-consensual selfies, and misbehaviour with a retired female professor during the college festival.
- Police opposed bail citing the seriousness of the allegations and the need for custodial questioning, and they flagged a risk of communal tension.
- The professor denies wrongdoing, attributes the case to misunderstanding or a grudge, cites an unblemished career and health issues, and says an investigating officer served him notice in hospital.