The National Commission for Women (NCW) has written to DGP Anjani Kumar demanding that the police investigate the atrocities faced by women on the campus of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad. The NCW also told the police to file an action-taken report within a week.
The commission wrote to the police, following a complaint from Rajya Sabha MP V. Sivadasan, who highlighted the the matter concerning women’s safety on ELFU campus. “Two unknown assailants within the campus have sexually and physically assaulted a girl. It has been alleged that the incident happened against the backdrop of continuing protests by the students for reconstituting the hitherto-inactive internal committee for gender sensitisation to deal with cases of sexual harassment on campus,” said their letter to the DGP.
It was alleged that the university’s security personnel had manhandled the students during their protest and that the administration was trying to muzzle the students instead of addressing their just demands, they said.
