A day after a police complaint was filed following a COEP student’s social media post on Sunday night which said that non-public images and movies of a number of the ladies’ hostel college students have been allegedly being shared on-line with out their consent, college students proceed to lift issues concerning the best way the college administration dealt with the matter.
Based on sources, one lady scholar was allegedly discovered sharing private movies of different ladies with a good friend who just isn’t a scholar of the faculty and this was reported to the chief rector on Could 3.
The phrase amongst college students is that the particular person with whom this content material was shared by the coed was not solely known as and made to remain within the institute’s hostel for 2 nights but additionally that he was made to delete the movies, images and chats from his cellphone by COEP administration.
The college officers, nonetheless, regardless of repeated try over final two days, didn’t touch upon this.
College students have alleged that on Could 3, when the matter was dropped at the discover of the registrar, the accused lady’s mother and father have been known as to the hostel. Together with them, the ‘good friend’ with whom she had been sharing the content material was additionally known as alongside along with his mother and father to the college hostel, they are saying.
A resident of the ladies’ hostel stated, “We have been advised that an FIR might be filed instantly subsequent morning (Could 4). Nevertheless, the subsequent day we discovered that the boy who just isn’t even a scholar of this school and his mother and father have been known as and the administration had prolonged discussions with the chief rector. They made him delete all of the content material from his gadgets. Why was this completed if the administration supposed to take the matter to the police within the first place? If there is no such thing as a clarification from the facet of the administration, then it’ll solely appear to be there was an try to suppress the entire incident.”
The boy was reportedly made to remain within the customer’s room on the hostel itself on the evening of Could 3 and 4.
A resident of the boys’ hostel stated, “His mother and father would keep all day, assembly with the hostel officers and go away at evening whereas the boy would keep on the customer’s room. Lots of the boys noticed him. He was accompanied by a safety guard always, even to the washroom. He didn’t converse to anybody and solely requested one particular person for a cellphone charger.”
Whereas Registrar DN Sonawane made different clarifications regarding this case in his a number of conversations with The Indian Express, he refused to touch upon this explicit allegation of whether or not the boy was known as to the institute hostel and made to delete content material from his cellphone.
Vice-Chancellor Sudhir Agashe stated he was not conscious of any particulars regarding the case. In the meantime, the chief rector stated he was not authorised to touch upon the problem.
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