Protests grip SAU after pupil alleges sexual assault on campus

A wave of protests swept by the South Asian University (SAU) campus in south Delhi on Tuesday over the sexual assault of a pupil on campus.

The 18-year-old pupil was allegedly sexually assaulted by 4 males, together with a safety guard, contained in the campus on Sunday. As the information unfold on Monday night, large protests erupted that continued on Tuesday.

An FIR was registered on Monday after the Maidan Garhi police station obtained a PCR name round 3 p.m. “The caller recognized as a good friend of the coed, who has levelled expenses of sexual assault towards 4 males,” stated Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ankit Chauhan.

According to the police, the first-year pupil alleged in her grievance that she had been receiving threatening e-mails from an unidentified sender who possessed her morphed pictures. The sender coerced her into assembly him at a abandoned spot on the campus, threatening to flow into the pictures if she refused. After repeated threats, the coed reluctantly went to the situation the place 4 males assaulted her and tried to make her ingest an abortion capsule; their try was interrupted when a hostel employee appeared, inflicting them to flee, the grievance said.

One of the accused is a campus safety guard, a senior police officer confirmed, including that they’re conducting a radical investigation into the matter.

Students alleged that college authorities “blamed the sufferer” at first earlier than serving to her after the assault got here to mild. They additionally demanded that pupil representatives be included within the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC).

“We are demanding that the method be expedited and that the caretaker and warden of her hostel be suspended for attempting to bury the incident and blame the sufferer,” stated a protesting pupil.

University’s response

In a press release on X, the college stated: “We, the SAU group… stand in solidarity in mild of the alleged horrific act of sexual violence that has been reported on campus. The South Asian University condemns this act within the strongest phrases.” The college added that it’s extending full help to college students and has constituted a disciplinary committee and an ICC to look intothe matter.