Two dozen goons molest a girl student of Delhi University in broad daylight within the campus.
If you think this is unacceptable, read on:
Examinees appearing for a police recruitment test in the university on Sunday ended up sexually assaulting several girl students of various colleges, attacking in droves, tearing off clothes and beating up guards. This happened in broad daylight within the university campus.
Further, the police refused to register FIRs, observing that "nobody got raped" [except for the law, of course]
The university administration and the "elected" students union woke up to the facts only after several hundred students mounted a vociferous protest. They've promised a slew of purely ornamental actions which will definitely NOT help in dealing a death blow to the problem of sexual harassment and eve-teasing in the campus, which seems to have become institutionalized in DU.
The fact remains that such cases continue to recur in DU with frightening regularity. But the administration still doesn't wake up from its slumber and it doesn't develop any mechanisms which will deal with sexual harassment on a daily basis.
*UNITED STUDENTS*, an independent group of DU students which has in the past fought for justice in the Priyadarshini Mattoo and Jessica Lall cases, *is taking the initiative of bringing together parents of DU students and other concerned citizens to press for our demands of developing const
