Kalakshetra Dance Professor Arrested for Sexual Harassment
Hari Padman, a Bharatanatyam dancer and teacher at the prestigious Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai, has been arrested on charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation following a complaint by one of his former students. Padman had been on the run since March 31 and was finally arrested on Monday. He has been sent to judicial custody till April 13. Padman had been a student at Kalakshetra since 1993 and had been teaching there since 2008.