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KOZHIKODE: The City Police, here, on Monday, arrested Azeez Tharuvana, assistant professor and writer, on the charges of sexually exploiting a 20-year-old girl belonging to scheduled caste community.

Azeez Tharuvana, the assistant professor of an autonomous college, surrendered before the police, around 4 am on Monday as the police registered a case against him under Section 376 (Rape) of the Indian Penal Code.

The police have also charged him under various sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. According to the complaint filed by a final year student of the college, the accused sexually abused her at different places including the quarters on the college campus.

