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Uttar Pradesh: On Sunday, Police said that three persons were arrested for allegedly molesting and stripping an IIT-BHU female student near her hostel in Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh in November this year.
Shivakant Mishra, SHO of Lanka police station, said that the accused have been identified as Kunal Pandey, Anand alias Abhishek Chauhan and Saksham Patel. They had allegedly molested the student of the Banaras Hindu University and also recorded a video of the act.
According to the complainant, she had gone out of her hostel with a friend when three men on a motorcycle forcibly took her to a corner and gagged her after separating her from her friend near the Karman Baba temple. The incident had triggered massive protests by the students of the university where they claimed that the outside elements were involved in the incident and had demanded to ban the outsiders from entering the campus.
The complaint further said that The accused persons then stripped the woman, made a video of her and clicked pictures. They let her go after 15 minutes and took her phone number. The police added that on the basis of the woman’s complaint, an FIR was registered under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under provisions of the IT Act at Lanka police station.
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