
PhD scholar molested at JNU; FIR lodged
The Hindu
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The Delhi police have registered a case after a PhD student was allegedly molested on the JNU campus late on Monday, officers said, adding that efforts to arrest the accused are underway.
According to DCP (Southwest) Gaurav Sharma, on Monday at around 12:45 a.m., the Vasant Kunj North police station received a PCR call regarding the molestation of a student in JNU. Thereafter, a police team reached the spot and it came to the fore that a student pursuing PhD. at the university was walking on the East Gate Road of the university, when a boy came on a bike from inside the campus and tried to molest her.
“The girl raised an alarm and the bike-borne man fled away. A case under IPC section 354 pertaining to outraging the modesty of a woman has been registered and efforts are on to nab the accused,” the DCP said.