The Chennai Police on Saturday booked Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad National President Dr Subbiah Shanmugam for allegedly harassing ...
The Chennai Police on Saturday booked Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad National President Dr Subbiah Shanmugam for allegedly harassing a woman, The Indian Express reported. However, in a statement issued late at night, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-linked student group claimed that the woman’s nephew, Balaji Vijayaraghavan, had withdrawn the complaint.
“Misunderstandings between two families now stand cleared, and all issues between the two parties have now resolved,” the ABVP claimed.
But Vijayaraghavan said the complaint had not been technically withdrawn, though he acknowledged that the family held talks with the ABVP. “An FIR [first information report] has been filed and legal procedures have to follow,” he said. “We want police to look at evidence which were portrayed as false by the accused. He added that during the legal process, the family may think of formally withdrawing the complaint, as Shanmugam is a doctor whose services are needed in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
The woman had accused Shanmugam of urinating at her doorstep, throwing used face masks and garbage, after a disagreement over parking slots at a housing society in Nanganallur area.
According to her family, the woman had asked Shanmugam to pay a fee of Rs 1,500 a month in January for using her parking space. On July 11, the family...
