Chandigarh Hostel Video Leak: 3 Arrests, An All-Women's Team Takes Charge
Protesters have demanded action from the Chandigarh University in India after leaked videos from its girls' hostel led to the suicide of some of its students.
Allegations about a girl student of Chandigarh University recording and sharing with her boyfriend “objectionable videos” from the hostel saw the college besieged by demonstrators and unrest since late Saturday.
The Chandigarh University administration has suspended the girls' hostel warden Rajvinder Kaur for alleged misbehaviour with students. The university has also been shut to students till Saturday.
The hostel warden was seen in a viral video confronting the girl accused of allegedly sending the videos to men outside the university.
Three people have been arrested in the case so far. The accused girl and her boyfriend were detained following massive protests by students. 23-year-old Sunny Mehta works at a travel agency. A second man, who works at a bakery, has also been arrested. His role is not clear yet.
“The suspect had sent her own videos to her boyfriend in Shimla. Other girls saw her recording while she was in the washroom and panicked, thinking she was shooting videos of them. If a girl and boy are sharing videos and not making them public, it isn’t a crime according to law,” Mohali SSP Vivek Sheel Soni told The Times of India. There was no evidence of videos other than those of the arrested student being shot and shared, police said.
A three-member all-women Special Investigation Team under the supervision of senior IPS officer Gurpreet Deo has been established to probe the incident, according to Punjab's Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav.