Chennai Police on Saturday arrested the former national president of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Dr Subbiah Shanmugam in Chennai for allegedly harassing a neighbouring woman.

"The 62-year-old doctor was taken into custody by the Chennai Adambakkam police after his neighbour accused him of harassment by urinating and throwing used surgical masks at her doorstep in 2020," Chennai Police said. In that year, the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of Congress, had demanded the arrest of Dr Subbiah Shanmugam for allegedly harassing a woman in an apartment complex in Chennai.