Sexually Harassing MBBS Trainees: Medical College Professor Gets 3 Years In Jail

A professor sentenced to 3 years rigorous imprisonment for sexually harassing MBBS trainees in Rajiv Gandhi Medical College in Kalwa in Thane. In 2014, when these incidents took place, Dr Saileshwar Natarajan (63) was head of the facility’s surgery department. A case was registered against him at Kalwa police station after several female students wrote to the police commissioner claiming Natarajan was touching them inappropriately on the pretext of demonstrating diagnostic procedures. Students had also held protests at the college during that time.