On Saturday, the Tamil Nadu police arrested a botany teacher of a high school in Erode for allegedly misbehaving with two girl students. The teacher, identified as Bhavani Sakthivel (44) who teaches botany in a government-run higher secondary school, Bhavani, has been accused of sexually misbehaving with the plus-one students sometime back.

Following the incident, the two victims narrated the entire incident to their parents. The parents, in turn, lodged a police complaint. In the meanwhile, the teacher who was on the run was later arrested and booked under the POCSO Act.