The Commissionerate Police on Thursday arrested the city-based Air Hostess and Hospitality Academy’s (AHHA) director on charges of admitting students without affiliation.
On Wednesday, a group of girl students had ransacked the institute and manhandled the director Dillip Routray and other employees alleging sexual harassment in the name of placements and running the institute without affiliation.
The police are also investigating the sexual harassment charges leveled by the girl students that they were sent to a Hyderabad-based hotel for job, where they were being sexually exploited.
Earlier in the day, the Kharavel Nagar police had summoned Routray and the students of AHHA for questioning. During grilling it was revealed that the institute doesn’t have necessary affiliations to offer the courses. later, the cops arrested Routray on charges of fraud.
Meanwhile, Bhubaneswar DCP Satyabrata Bhoi said action would also be initiated against students who ransacked the institute. The AHHA authorities on Wednesday lodged a police complaint in this regard at the Kharavela Nagar police station.
Sources said the police are contemplating to send a team of police officials to Hyderabad where students were allegedly sexually harassed.
Students of the city-based air hostess institute ransacked office and damaged the properties and thrashed its officials, including director Dillip Routray and other employees alleging sexual harassment in the name of placements.