Bhubaneswar: The Bharatpur police today arrested a teacher of a private school in Odisha capital for allegedly harassing a girl student of the educational institution by forcing her to have relationship with him.

As per a complaint lodged by the victim with police, accused Kalucharan Badajena used to seek 'favours' from the girl in exchange of providing her questions papers of class tests.

The student alleged that the teacher had been forcing her to go to park with him. He also wrote objectionable remarks about her on bench of the classroom, she said.

While such acts of the teacher were going on for a month, the girl told her parents about the matter, following which they filed a written complaint with the police.

Acting on the complaint, police detained the accused for questioning and later apprehended him.