Protests erupted on the campus of a private university in Mohali over “rumours” that objectionable videos of several women students were recorded by a hosteller, following which Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday ordered a probe. The police arrested a woman student and sent a team to apprehend a youth in Himachal Pradesh.
Punjab’s Additional Director-General of Police (DGP) Gurpreet Deo, who reached the Chandigarh University campus along with other senior officials to take stock of the situation after Saturday night protests, told reporters that the woman appeared to have shared a video of herself with the youth and no objectionable video of any other student was found.
The university authorities also rejected as “false and baseless” reports that claimed that videos of several women students in the hostel were made and leaked on social media and that students had attempted suicide after the episode. However, a fresh protest was held on the university campus on Sunday evening by a large number of students with some of them accusing the university authorities of “suppressing” the incident.
