Video Leak Row: Students call off protest, police investigation underway

A female student and her boyfriend from Himachal Pradesh were arrested on Sunday after students at the Chandigarh University hostel alleged that the duo leaked objectionable videos of women hostellers of the Chandigarh University. The Himachal Police also detained another 31-year-old man in connection with the case.

Video Leak Row: Students call off protest, police investigation underway

Students have called off their protest over objectionable videos of several women students allegedly recorded by a hosteller after getting assurances from both the district administration and police. The arrested youth, whose role in the matter was already under the scanner, was first detained in Shimla and later handed over to Punjab Police

A female student and her boyfriend from Himachal Pradesh were arrested on Sunday after students at the Chandigarh University hostel alleged that the duo leaked objectionable videos of women hostellers of the Chandigarh University. The Himachal Police also detained another 31-year-old man in connection with the case.

The students ended the protest on Sunday night. Punjab’s Additional Director General of Police Gurpreet Deo said that "no such objectionable videos were leaked except one which the student sent to her boyfriend of herself."

The Additional DGP reached the varsity campus after Saturday night protests to take stock of the situation and said that no objectionable video of any other student was recovered.

While speaking in the attempted suicide in Chandigarh University, Mohali DC Amit Talwar said that "no information about the incident has come out and added that rumours are being spread. “We have not been brought forward any information that a suicide has taken place."

Meanwhile, Chandigarh University has also rejected the reports and claimed it as false and baseless. The University said that claimed videos of several women students in the varsity hostel were made and leaked on social media and that distraught students had attempted suicide are wrong.

“The police had a chat today with students. They are satisfied now… First-year students have taken their own stand to not come in front of media as they are freshers, they just completed Class 12th,” said Arvinder Kang, director, student welfare of the Chandigarh University, as reported by News18.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann also ordered the probe into the incident, stating that strict action will be taken against those found guilty. “Our daughters are our honour… a high-level inquiry has been ordered into the incident. I am in touch with the administration, he said, while appealing to people not to believe rumours.

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