Chandigarh University Row: Punjab Police Arrests Woman Student, 23-yr-old Himachal Youth Known to Her in Alleged Video Leak Matter
Punjab Police, on the other hand, claimed that the accused didn't record any videos of fellow mates and said there was one video of the accused herself
Fresh protests erupted on the Chandigarh University campus in Punjab’s Mohali late on Sunday with some students accusing the authorities of suppressing the alleged leak of objectionable videos of several women students. Most of the protesters were dressed in black clothes and raised slogans like “we want justice" in the presence of police. After an accused woman student was arrested earlier in the day, a 23-year-old youth from Shimla known to her was also arrested after being detained in Shimla. Punjab Police took custody of the youth, who belongs to Rohru town near Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla.
Chief minister Bhagwant Mann had ordered a high-level probe into the matter and, after a preliminary investigation, police arrested a woman student and dispatched a team to apprehend the youth, who is said to be her boyfriend, in Himachal Pradesh.
Punjab ADGP Gurpreet Deo, who reached the campus of the private university along with other senior officials to take stock of the situation after the first round of protests on Saturday night, said the woman student appeared to have shared a video of herself with the youth and no objectionable video of any other student was found. University authorities also rejected as “false and baseless" reports that claimed videos of several women students in the varsity hostel were made and leaked on social media and students had attempted suicide after the episode.
Mohali SSP Vivek Sheel Soni said the arrested student’s mobile phone had been seized for forensic analysis. An FIR has been filed under IPC Section 354C (voyeurism) and the IT Act and further probe is on, officials said. Mann ordered a probe into the incident, saying strict action will be taken against those found guilty.