Survivor Strips To Force Arrest Of IIT Student Accused Of Rape

A postgraduate engineering student at IIT-Jammu was arrested on Wednesday after a woman accused him of rape. The 22-year-old accused and the survivor knew each other from their undergraduate studies at a college in Agra, police said.

Though the FIR was filed 18 days ago, the delay in the arrest procedure compelled her to strip in protest on a bustling road in Agra in broad daylight. The video of her disrobing herself was widely circulated on social media which prompted the police to arrest the accused, reports Times of India.

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She was later taken to a mental hospital for observation, where she stayed for three days. The woman, a year junior to him claimed that despite the FIR being lodged 18 days ago, she was compelled to run from pillar to post to get the accused arrested.

Meanwhile, she had earlier filed a harassment complaint against the accused on July 29, but the SHO said that the investigation did not uncover any supporting evidence.

In the FIR file, the survivor alleged that the accused had abducted her and raped her in a car before abandoning her on a road. She said that the incident had ruined her reputation making it difficult for her to get married. The survivor further demanded the police to strip him naked in front of her eyes, as she claimed he had done to her.

An FIR was filed on August 11 at Sikandra police station under BNS section 64 (1) rape, 127 (2) (wrongful confinement), and 352 (criminal intimidation), and the victim accused him of both sexual and mental harassment, ACP Suraj Rai said to TOI.

The police added that the survivor’s statement was also recorded in the city magistrate’s court, leading to the arrest of the accused.

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However, a senior police involved in the investigation had raised doubts regarding the accusations. The official said that as per the Call Detail Records (CDR) and the notebook recovered from her possession suggest that she may have been on good terms with the accused as the notebook contained the accused’s name repeatedly. The CDR also revealed frequent texting from the survivor with no response from the accused.