Woman intern sexually assaulted on IIT Madras campus; man arrested after two days
CHENNAI: A 20-year-old woman intern was accosted and sexually assaulted on IIT Madras campus by a food court employee on June 25. Two days later, the Kotturpuram police tracked down the culprit –
Roshan Kumar
of Mumbai, working at Mumbai Chat for the past six months – and arrested him on Friday.
While IIT-M's official statement later on Friday evening said its security personnel traced Roshan Kumar, 22, and handed him over to police, the latter said that on receiving a complaint from the IIT-M management, they took over the probe, scanned CCTV camera footage and arrested the culprit.
According to police, the woman, who is from another institute and is undergoing an internship at IIT-M, was walking near the institute's open-air theatre around 9.15pm on Wednesday when she was accosted by a man who threatened her with a stick, pulled her hair and molested her.
She managed to raise an alarm and escape and reported the incident to campus security.
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When the campus security personnel launched a search for the culprit, he hid behind some bushes and escaped.
The authorities later alerted the Kotturpuram police, who collected CCTV camera footage and other technical evidence. The footage showed Kumar approaching the theatre area shortly before the woman arrived.
Although Kumar had reported sick and was on leave on the day of the crime, he was seen loitering near the open-air theatre, where he targeted the survivor.
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Based on evidence, Roshan Kumar was taken into custody and was booked for offences such as threatening and attacking the student and outraging her modesty under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Act and the
Tamil Nadu
Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act. He was later remanded in judicial custody.
Later in the evening, IIT Madras released a statement saying: 'An unfortunate incident happened on June 25 where a contractual employee of a vendor operating on campus misbehaved with a woman student visiting from another institute. She raised an alarm, and the culprit was apprehended by the institute's security and handed over to police. IIT Madras has zero tolerance towards sexual harassment and is committed to ensuring a safe and secure campus.
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Further investigation is on.
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