Update 12:35 p.m. Aug. 22, 2025: A Penn State spokesperson confirmed Narayanan is no longer employed by the university.
A former Penn State research professor accused earlier this year of watching a family he didn’t know through the windows of their home is facing additional charges for allegedly filming a woman without her knowledge while she was undressed in another Patton Township residence.
Township police discovered the video on Anoop Narayanan’s phone after he was arrested in June for allegedly stalking a family at a different residence on the same block in the Toftrees neighborhood, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed on Monday.
The video of a woman in the area of her shower appeared to be filmed from outside her residence on May 4, police wrote.
After police identified the location of the apartment, the woman confirmed that a still image from the video depicted her bedroom and showed the room to an officer, according to the affidavit. She told police she had not given anyone permission to film her.
Narayanan, 50, of Halfmoon Township, was charged via summons on Monday with misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy and loitering and prowling at night. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17.
A Penn State spokesperson confirmed Narayanan is no longer employed by the university.
The former research professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State was initially charged with stalking and prowling at night on June 15 when a man reported a person later identified as Narayanan had been lurking outside his family’s Toftrees apartment. The man previously reported setting up a camera out of concern for his family’s safety because Narayanan had come to their residence several times.
Video showed Narayanan crouching outside the family’s window, slowly approaching in an apparent effort to avoid setting off a motion-activated light, police wrote at the time. The man then confronted Narayanan, who later told an officer that he did not live in the complex but liked to go there for walks.
When told there was video of him looking into the residence, Narayanan apologized and admitted to coming to the apartment and watching the family, including a young child, three or four times, according to an affidavit in that case.
He was denied bail at a preliminary arraignment on June 16, but after a hearing on June 27, bail was set at $50,000, which Narayanan posted that day, according to court records. He waived a preliminary hearing on those charges and is next due in court for a pre-trial conference on Sept. 15.
