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Rourkela: The local police on Sunday arrested the National Institute of Technology (NIT) chief security officer (CSO) Balaram Champatiray, who was absconding since complaints were registered against him for sexually harassing female security guards, from Jagada under Jhirapani police limits.
Champatiray was arrested while he was on his way to a relative's house.
Though the cops had raided Champatiray’s residence and other places several times after an FIR was lodged against him at the Sector 3 police station, he could not be traced.
The arrested Chief Security Officer was produced in a local court which sent him to the judicial custody for 14 days.
Notably, some lady security guards of NIT had lodged police complaints against Champatiray three weeks back and demanded his immediate arrest.
The incident had come to the fore after a video clipping showing a lady security guard sitting on his lap inside his office room in NIT became public. This had triggered tension in the institue as irate students had resorted to an indefinite dharna demanding his immediate dismissal and arrest.
Following the incident, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had sent Under Secretary Rajesh Solanki to probe the matter.
After arriving at the institute, Solanki had talked to the students, faculty members, the Fact Finding team and the director of the institute Dr Sunil Kumar Sarangi.
To evade arrest, Champatiray had moved the Orissa High Court on June 7 seeking anticipatory bail. However, the court rejected his bail plea.
Champatiray had remained untraceable after the NIT fact-finding team constituted by the director of the institute, in course of its investigation, found that the allegations made by the lady security guards were true.
