India, Oct. 7 -- Haverford College in Pennsylvania issued a statement after professor Guangtian Ha, a faculty member, was arrested earlier on October 6. Ha was charged with 'online harassment and intimidation'.

"I am deeply distressed by these allegations and want to state in the plainest of terms that any form of harassment or discrimination based on identity is unacceptable, antithetical to our values, and has no place at Haverford," President Wendy Raymond said in the statement.

The statement added that Ha was on sabbatical leave and not teaching this academic year. It also noted that he has been placed on administrative leave and remains barred from the campus amid the criminal case against him.

The college president described Ha's...