Eve-teasing plaint: 2 arrested
Two youths from neighbouring Hooghly were arrested from a community Lakshmi Puja pandal at a village in Kalna last night after two local women lodged a complaint of eve-teasing and making ugly gestures at them.
Students at the Mahatama Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University in Bareilly staged a protest on Wednesday following an incident of eve teasing on the campus.
The protesting students said a girl was harassed by some male students two days back, but despite complaints, not much had happened to track and book the guilty students.
The sit-in protest was organised by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student outfit affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Members of the Samajwadi Party-affiliated Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha also staged a similar protest.
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Students raised slogans against Vice Chancellor Anil Shukla and sought an action plan for improved security on the campus and at the hostels for girls.
The development comes days after a similar eve teasing incident at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay University in Gorakhpur and earlier at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), which saw a violent agitation.
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