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Police on Friday summoned retired Bangalore University professor B.C. Mylarappa after a 37-year-old woman, who had previously worked with him, filed a complaint alleging stalking and sexual harassment.
The woman claimed that Mylarappa had recently been following her and had demanded ₹1.5 crore in exchange for leaving her alone.
According to the complainant, she worked at the Karnataka State Harijana Sevaka Sangha, an organisation run by Mylarappa, between November 2022 and May 2024.
She said that after she left the organisation, she had been involved in a legal dispute over a property, which was being handled by an advocate who was also her former classmate.
In the last week of September, Mylarappa allegedly called her near the ISKCON temple and shouted at her for refusing to sign a document stating that ‘anything that happens to her should be blamed on the advocate handling her case’.
“After this incident, he kept following me. He stood at my door, ringing the bell for hours,” she told the police. When confronted, Mylarappa allegedly demanded ₹1.5 crore to leave her alone.
On October 9, Mylarappa allegedly rang her doorbell continuously for two hours, causing her distress and prompting her to file a police complaint.
The Basaveshwara Nagar police have booked Mylarappa under Sections 74 (criminal force against a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 75 (sexual harassment), 78 (stalking), 79 (any word, gesture, or act intended to insult a woman’s modesty or intrude upon her privacy), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
In a separate case, the father-in-law of the advocate handling the complainant’s case filed another complaint at the Kamakshipalya Police Station, alleging that Mylarappa had threatened them and their relative, the advocate.
A senior police officer told The Hindu that Mylarappa was questioned on Friday but he has secured bail in the case.
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