Overview
- Commissionerate Police arrested four suspects on Wednesday following Tuesday's complaint by a female engineering student, and a local court sent them to judicial custody.
- The student told police the assault happened about 20 days earlier at a rented room in Kaimatia after she drank a cold drink, felt dizzy, fell asleep, and woke up to signs of abuse.
- Investigators say the men recorded explicit videos and used them to threaten her, with one accused allegedly coercing further assaults by warning he would share the clips online.
- Officers registered case number 162/26 under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code, and Section 66E of the IT Act, which covers privacy violations from capturing images.
- Hindustan Times reported the case came to light after police intervened in an alleged bid to force deletion of the videos, and investigators are reviewing the abduction claim as part of the probe.